From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Willie Dee and writing letters. (was Re: >>An example of Dell's)
Date: 29 Jul 92 05:23:38 GMT
Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access.  The Mouth of the South.

davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:

>  I encourage others to write or fax a little note just suggesting that
>the editor contact the princial (Stan Brown) before publishing an
>editorial. No other content is needed, if he's reputable he will follow
>up.

Thanks.  Sincerely.  Nothing like a little controversy to spark 
circulation.  See, now you'll have to buy the mag (or at least read
someone else's) in order to see what I have to say.  Ain't free
enterprise grand?

>| I never claimed to be objective.

>  You never claimed to be honest, sober or sane either, but most people
>assume that posters are all of the above unless their sig file says
>"written by a drunken insane pathological liar." Maybe you could delete
>one of the lines of commercial advertising from your sig and put in a
>disclamer. The above sentence might be nice, or something with the
>phrase self-serving included.

You're not really stupid enough to actually claim everything written and not 
disclaimed to the contrary is objective?  Maybe I ought to be selling
Arizona oceanfront property.

>John De Armond, WD4OQC              |Interested in high performance mobility?  
>Performance Engineering Magazine (TM) |
>Marietta, Ga                         |Interested in high tech and computers? 
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>  Since someone complained about the length of Donn's signature (we
>don't have to worry about that, do we), I thought I'd leave this one in,
>it's not only over four lines, every line seems to contain a part of a
>commercial advertisment.

Thanks.  I want all the exposure I can get.  Commercial use of the 
net is a fact of life.  A fact of life I plan to push tastefully but 
agressively.   If you don't like my advertising then don't buy my
products.  Simple as that.  The last thing I'd ever want is an unhappy
customer.  If you do, however, you'll be in an extreme minority judging
from the response so far.  

At least we now have YOUR cards on the table.  You don't like my .sig and
the possibility of my making money from the net so you take a cheap
shot regarding the Dell controversy.  Now we know.

Strange that you did not in the same whine complain about Dell and other
commercial entities being active on the net providing commercial
services in the form of tech support.  I wonder how many people have bought
Dell on the basis of its being on the net?  Just to make sure I'm not
misunderstood, I think it's great.  I'm merely taking note of your selective
whine.  

John
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