-=> Quoting Jon Watson to Sean Dennis <=-

 SD> On 16 Jul 04 at 19:09, Jon Watson wrote to Mark Hoover:
 SD> 
 SD>  JW> Or not....man what a loser.
 SD> 
 SD> The way you keep bitching, you're making yourself out to be a loser.
 SD> 
 SD> I know Mark personally and I know that he's NOT a loser at all.  He's 
 JW> been
 SD> having a lot of problems with his BBS machine including a pretty bad hard 
 SD> drive crash.


 JW> Shall I recap?

 JW> I applied like a month ago now. After about 2 weeks of total silence
 JW> he sent  me
 JW> an email literally reading "How do you want to connect to get your
 JW> traffic".  replied and then haven't heard a thing since.



 JW> I've connected to his BBS and left him a message, I've Fido netmailed
 JW> him,  I've
 JW> logged on to other Miragenet BBS's looking for him and I've repeatedly
 JW> internet
 JW> emailed him.

 JW> He hasn't even attempted to contact me other than to send me that
 JW> single sentence email.

 JW> I can understand software problems, but when I see him being so active
 JW> in promoting Miragenet (how many Miragenet ads are in this echo???)
 JW> Obviously he is up and running. Why would he solicit new nodes if he
 JW> wasn't up and  running?
 JW> And while he's busy posting in here, would it kill him to respond to
 JW> my messages?

     HD Crashes could result in him losing ALL the above you sent him.
     The emails and such.  He has had one recently.  As to ads those
     are automated.  A simple backup recovery on software will
     have them going again.

 JW> I'm just flabbergasted at how many communication attempts he can
 JW> ignore. Stunned, really. Can you blame me for feeling insulted?

     I know him well.  But i do not know what all has been going
     on recently.  I myself have been out of touch for 3 weeks
     for being sick and out of the country.  So stuff happens.

     Now you know though how well we have to deal with nodes on
     the reverse side.  We have folks who join our nets but suddenly
     disappear and never contact us.  After numerous attempts to
     email us.  Do they let us know they closed down 2 years ago?

     Course not...So we know how you feel but give him a break I'm
     sure he'll get to you.  For all you know he could have some
     serious emergencies going on.  One thing after 15 years doing
     this stuff is we don't deal well with threats of time.  I've
     had folks join and demand to be in the entwork within 8 hours
     or they'll pull out.  No good.  I'll let them leave there.
     We prefer quality folks over quantity.  Back maybe early '90s
     we'd have jump on such threats and acted but in today's world
     its a bit different.  IMHO.







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