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- From: dmb@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: stuff it
- Date: 5 Jan 1993 05:22:18 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Lines: 44
- Message-ID: <1ib5uaINNjjv@life.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <4JAN93.16060183@cc4.crl.aecl.ca>
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- In article <4JAN93.16060183@cc4.crl.aecl.ca> csullogg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca writes:
- >RE: posting Darek's note on the net, that fool and his constant bitching
- >both deserve to be exposed on the net. Anyone else (including guys like
- >Daniel Eriksson) who think otherwise should take a hike. I have had it with
- >Darek and other fools like him. Darek - stay in the PC interest group and
- >stay out of the Atari interest group. I, and many others, are tired of
- >your crap.
-
- Really, Derek's been going pretty light on the bitching lately. Now
- you'll just get him going again (and rightly so).
-
- Daniel has done a lot for this group, and I hardly see his defense of
- Darek here as some kind of sell-out. Daniel would do us all a favor to
- ignore your request that he take a hike.
-
- Darek has a PC. He works for Microsoft. He writes PC software about
- 16 hours a day, I'd imagine. None of these things, however, changes the
- fact that he's written some of the best-selling ST software ever made.
- I think it's safe to say that he knows what he's talking about when it
- comes to technical matters regarding both the ST and the PC, despite
- his obvious bias towards PC (against ST's?).
-
- >BTW, I'll gladly repost anyone's private mail if they attack me for
- >my net comments. Take that as a warning if you want to send me a nasty
- >note!!!
-
- With this is mind, I'll save you the trouble by responding publicly.
- Darek has posted some inciteful stuff in the past, but the message you
- quoted from -- even if it had been public, which it wasn't -- was
- hardly flame bait. Contentious, yes. Out of order? No. (IMHO)
-
- Posting private email, BTW, is arguably illegal in many countries,
- since the paper analogue -- publishing a private letter from someone
- in a magazine, newspaper, etc. without their permission -- is illegal.
-
- We went through this a few years ago. You could ask in misc.legal for
- a more definitive answer, but at the very least posting private email
- is seriously frowned upon.
-
- Dave Baggett
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