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- From: wjustice@inforamp.net (wjustice)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: NA distributor?? WTF
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 08:49:57 GMT
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-
- Hi Jim!
-
- ...............Long Winded Depletion Depleted For Depravity..................
-
-
- Sorry for the delay in answering; I've been quite ill. Think I got so riled
- up the night of my original post on this entire matter (and not on any Amiga
- related matter) that my BP went off the clock. Following morning I lost
- consciousness with a massive nose (and god knows what other holes (which
- shouldn't be there) in my head bleed. Fortunately for me, unfortunately to
- those Usenet and Fidonet users who hoped I'd dropped off the edge of the
- earth (my doc tells me that I nearly did)my family came home just in time and
- got emergency help.
-
- I've been on my back, with my eldest son using Thor and AmiQWK to pick up my
- daily messages. He tells me that Thor and my hard drives are going to have
- a smokin' battle if I don't clean up/reply/purge/ etc.
-
-
- Wj>> It's just unfortunate that many reputable Amigaphiles, such as Jeff
- Wj>> Grimmett and Asha Develder employ that "cute" American trait of
- Wj>> naivete and spend their time blissfully bantering away, when just a
- Wj>> little bit of cynicism helps view the world for the not so nice,
- Wj>> idealistic place that we's all like to imagine that it is?
-
- Just to continue the previous quote in perspective....
- The issue was that things had been and were continuing very amiss in the
- North American distribution and production of the A4000T's with which AT had
- been luring and placating North American dealers, users, developers, etc.
- Visit a few dealers, do some math, ....the Sam Report (reputable or not)
- meant something. Wonder Computers'collapse after only being able to sell
- 10 machines meant something. In answer to the original post, I suggested
- that the matter should be put to a broader user base.
-
- >This is all very nice Willy...but why are you posting this here, instead of
- >on Fido where these people can defend themselves?
-
- 1 See above
-
- 2. Well Jim, I posted on Fido, we traded back and forth a few times
- with Jeff Grimmett, and I sent Asha Develder, by email, a copy of the entire
- original post with an introduction, explaining that I was posting a reply to
- someone else who had posted Asha's cross-post and my reasons for so doing.
- Asha responded within the day; unfortunately I was not able to answer for the
- reasons which I described above.
-
- 3. Quite frankly, Jim, while I've been an Amiga user since '88, and our
- family has Amigas coming out of its ears (I think that's why we can only
- afford Kraft dinner for supper) when it comes to comms, I'm a real newbie.
-
- I've figured out that Fido is on again- off again, who knows when your
- message will go through; and the 'Net' never seems to fail me. And the fact
- is, both Jeff and Asha have as good access to this conference as anyone else,
- and since my response to the originating post was in this conference, it seems
- a bit silly to say..."coninued on Fidonet..."
-
- With all due respect Jim, I think that you're only reading part of the story.
-
- Wj>> Team Amiga, etc....great P.R. but does anyone outside the Fidonet world
- Wj>> know about it?
-
- >Get a grip Willy...Team Amiga was started as a joke for Christ sake!
-
- Maybe it was. But now Gary Peak is working hard to gather input on behalf of
- Team Amiga to pass on to Olaf Barthel (of Term fame), now working on an OS4
- for the Amiga. I understand that it was Olaf who asked Team Amiga for this.
-
- >Sounds to me like you have an axe to grind...
-
- I don't grind axes. Too much of a chance of hitting yourself in the foot with
- it when you're finished.
-
-
- --WT ................wjustice@inforamp.net
-
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