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    31-Jul-91  23:49:55
Sb: #11520-#you better read this
Fm: PaulSeniura 76476,464
To: Steve Wegert 76703,4255 (X)

I've been waiting more than a half year for some useful help and feedback on
several articles I've uploaded, not just the Timer project either.

The forum MESSAGES are not where the articles are located; they are uploaded
into the library sections.  After uploading an article, I'll start a message
intending for that to be the "reply thread" for the ARTICLE.  Those text files
can't fit into a message here on CIS, and most people would have to suffer
through them if they *did* fit (Delphi's system will allow such a fit).  So if
you want to calculate how long I've been waiting for responses, check the
upload dates of the ARTICLES not the messages.  And start browsing those
messages I left -- the NICE ones -- intending on starting discussion threads,
one thread for each various subject related to those article text files.

Now count how many times I've logged on silently to see if there were any
replies to those initial thread-starting messages.  That all adds up in terms
of CIS on-line charges.  They *do* count.  You weren't counting all of these
times I passed by to find "nothing's going on", because I *was* silent. Nothing
useable on the forums, no e-mail, no requests for conferences to do the details
interactively, no volunteers to go ask people on Usenet, no nuthin.

Just plain ol' wasting money.  Which is why I burst a few days ago after I
found out CIS has a contest going on about "How Calling CIS Saved My Day" or
some such subject.  They are doing that to justify the high cost of using this
service.  I felt they need to know why people like me are just burning dollar
bills on their phone lines.  And I still feel like they need to know.

Shoot, I feel very embarrassed I had to get that flaming angry just to eeek out
a response out of someone.  It's not fun doing this; it demonstrates the sheer
lack of knowledge we have when we want to develop something (despite all the
books I've bought which also helped those authors earn a living).  Lack of
knowledge is frustrating in itself, not counting the waiting we've been doing
here.

-- Thx, Paul Seniura.

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