Scott, I'm not sure why this is being dredged up again. Did one of us go
through a time warp?


Mark did respond to me, in this echo, several weeks ago. I count this issue 
as
 resolved.

Jon

 
Scott Adams wrote to Jon Watson:
SA>  -=> Quoting Jon Watson to Sean Dennis <=-
SA> 
SA>  SD> On 16 Jul 04 at 19:09, Jon Watson wrote to Mark Hoover:
SA>  SD> 
SA>  SD>  JW> Or not....man what a loser.
SA>  SD> 
SA>  SD> The way you keep bitching, you're making yourself out to be a loser.
SA>  SD> 
SA>  SD> I know Mark personally and I know that he's NOT a loser at all.  
He's
SA>  JW> been
SA>  SD> having a lot of problems with his BBS machine including a pretty bad 
SA> hard
SA>  SD> drive crash.
SA> 
SA> 
SA>  JW> Shall I recap?
SA> 
SA>  JW> I applied like a month ago now. After about 2 weeks of total silence
SA>  JW> he sent  me
SA>  JW> an email literally reading "How do you want to connect
to get your
SA>  JW> traffic".  replied and then haven't heard a thing since.
SA> 
SA> 
SA> 
SA>  JW> I've connected to his BBS and left him a message, I've Fido 
netmailed
SA>  JW> him,  I've
SA>  JW> logged on to other Miragenet BBS's looking for him and I've 
SA> repeatedly
SA>  JW> internet
SA>  JW> emailed him.
SA> 
SA>  JW> He hasn't even attempted to contact me other than to send me that
SA>  JW> single sentence email.
SA> 
SA>  JW> I can understand software problems, but when I see him being so 
SA> active
SA>  JW> in promoting Miragenet (how many Miragenet ads are in this echo???)
SA>  JW> Obviously he is up and running. Why would he solicit new nodes if he
SA>  JW> wasn't up and  running?
SA>  JW> And while he's busy posting in here, would it kill him to respond to
SA>  JW> my messages?
SA> 
SA>      HD Crashes could result in him losing ALL the above you sent him.
SA>      The emails and such.  He has had one recently.  As to ads those
SA>      are automated.  A simple backup recovery on software will
SA>      have them going again.
SA> 
SA>  JW> I'm just flabbergasted at how many communication attempts he can
SA>  JW> ignore. Stunned, really. Can you blame me for feeling insulted?
SA> 
SA>      I know him well.  But i do not know what all has been going
SA>      on recently.  I myself have been out of touch for 3 weeks
SA>      for being sick and out of the country.  So stuff happens.
SA> 
SA>      Now you know though how well we have to deal with nodes on
SA>      the reverse side.  We have folks who join our nets but suddenly
SA>      disappear and never contact us.  After numerous attempts to
SA>      email us.  Do they let us know they closed down 2 years ago?
SA> 
SA>      Course not...So we know how you feel but give him a break I'm
SA>      sure he'll get to you.  For all you know he could have some
SA>      serious emergencies going on.  One thing after 15 years doing
SA>      this stuff is we don't deal well with threats of time.  I've
SA>      had folks join and demand to be in the entwork within 8 hours
SA>      or they'll pull out.  No good.  I'll let them leave there.
SA>      We prefer quality folks over quantity.  Back maybe early '90s
SA>      we'd have jump on such threats and acted but in today's world
SA>      its a bit different.  IMHO.
SA> 
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SA> 
SA> ... "Those arrogant sons of... Take them down!" - Ivanova
SA> --- Fringe BBS
SA> 


- Jon
  The HeatSink BBS
  Calgary, Alberta, Canada, eh?

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