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- From: TSETTLE@POLYVM.BITNET (Thomas B. Settle)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.notabene
- Subject: NB4 arrival &c
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- Date: 14 Oct 92 22:22:52 GMT
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- [Sorry, mis-wrote the original address] TBS
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- ----------------------------Original message----------------------------
- For the information of those who might still be waiting, a package of NB
- goodies has now made it across the East River at least to downtown Brook-
- lyn, propelled (no doubt) by the strong winds of the Columbus and anti-
- Columbus celebrations in Manhatten these last few days. I have not yet
- the opportunity to *install*; I wanted to do a reasonably thorough read of
- several manuals and guides that came in the package before jumping in. But
- I have noticed that many of the files are dated from mid to late Sept (two
- the 29th of Sept.), which encourages me to think that some of the early
- problems noted here may have already been corrected by the late mailings.
- I hope so.
- While I am here I should like to thank Stan Anderson of Claremont for a
- substantially correct interpretation of a comment I made in a posting a
- short while ago. I was roundly chastized by one of our self appointed high
- inquisitors for casting **personal aspersions**. For the record I have
- been and still am entirely and firmly convinced Rebecca Bennett is one of
- the chief assets of DB/NBI. She has always given me intelligent, quick
- and courteous help, even by fax which I have had to use during my normal,
- three summer months in Italy. But I do have to wonder whether she and
- NBI are still going to be around in another year. If NBI is so under-
- capitalized and understaffed that they have to put Ms. Bennett to addressing
- mailing lables, or whatever they had her spending a good part of her time
- doing this last month and a half (thereby wasting a genuine national
- resource), then we do have to worry about the prospects. My own comment in
- the original posting was meant to remark on that situation. I have read
- over that comment several times and for the life of me I cannot but think
- the interpretation for which I was castigated was somewhat forced (we do
- know that inquisitors have always had keener noses for heresy than others,
- sometimes sniffing it where none exists).
- So thank you, Stan Anderson. I am going to assume that the rest of this
- list read my original comment in the sense of your interpretation.
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- Tom Settle
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