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echo: aust_ads
to: Grant Beattie
from: David Drummond
date: 1995-05-09 06:06:50
subject: OS/2 2.11 GA fullpack for sale.

Grant, at 07:52 on Mon, May 01 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley ...

BG>>> not department stores (and most certainly NOT from 
BG>>> unethical backyarders like yourself, whose name constantly 
BG>>> changes

LE>>> Oi! Just because a business operates out of a backyard 
LE>>> doesn't mean it's unethical. Small is not unethical. Small 
LE>>> is simply small.

BG>> I'm sure your English is of a sufficient standard that you 
BG>> don't need me to tell you that my use of unethical was in 
BG>> the adjectival sense. I'm also a backyarder, in that I 
BG>> service and repair electronics goods from my home, and I'm 
BG>> not at all ashamed to admit it.  However, I also consider 
BG>> myself to be an ethical backyarder.  Spot the difference?

GB> Since when did Lewin start being 'unethical'??

The top quote in this message from Bill wasn't to Lewin.  It was to some-one else

GB> He has always been fair with his service to me.

Jolly good :-)

David

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