witr@rwwa.COM (Robert Withrow) (05/22/91)
In article <q7Ta325w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk rants: |"Hopefully" isn't good enough. Nobody told me for weeks, if not months. And frankly, my friend, I wish they hadn't told you. -- --- Robert Withrow, R.W. Withrow Associates, Swampscott MA 01907 USA Tel: +1 617 598 4480, Fax: +1 617 598 4430, Net: witr@rwwa.COM
scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) (05/22/91)
In article <q7Ta325w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk writes: >"Hopefully" isn't good enough. Nobody told me for weeks, if not months. Your newsfeed posted a note here claiming he *did* inform you. From Message-ID: <1991May15.142106.636@ibmpcug.co.uk> by dylan@ibmpcug.CO.UK (Matthew Farwell) [ As a bit of background, we are mantis's main feed and we are the site that dropped six of their articles ] I did tell you. I have a mail message sitting in my outgoing folder to you and 7 other news administrators who we exchange news with to the effect that cnews now drops articles which are badly formatted. Its dated April 30th 1991. Do you want me to resend it to you? If you are talking about noone telling you about cnews dropping some of your articles, then I also told you about that, within a few hours of me seeing the log message. I sent you back the log entries and told you to resend them. Unfortunately I haven't actually got a copy of that mail message but I distinctly remember sending it. I even have your reply to it somewhere. >There was no messenger. C News didn't tell me, remember? Yes, but I did. I warned you in advance. I told you when your articles had been dropped. He also pointed out that he didn't wish to pay the 500 pounds per year your solutions would cost. -- "SPAM is a registered trademark of a pork product packed only by Geo. A Hormel & Co. Corp." -- Sun Technical Bulletin, March 1991, pg ii
) (05/23/91)
scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes: > In article <q7Ta325w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk writes: > >"Hopefully" isn't good enough. Nobody told me for weeks, if not months. > > Your newsfeed posted a note here claiming he *did* inform you. Yes. WHEN THEY THEMSELVES INSTALLED C NEWS. UNTIL OUR FEED SITE HAPPENED TO INSTALL THE LATEST C NEWS, NOBODY TOLD ME. Now read that again, Einstein. > He also pointed out that he didn't wish to pay the 500 pounds per year your > solutions would cost. Bullshit. Solution (4) of the list I recently posted (<io49226w164w@mantis.co.uk>, posted Mon, 20 May 91 16:03:29 BST) would cost ibmpcug no more than the modem time for sending the error reports. And as I said when Matthew pointed out that he didn't want to pay, if you can't afford to send error notifications you shouldn't be so intolerant of trivial errors. mathew
dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk (Matthew Farwell) (05/24/91)
In article <NiNe320w164w@mantis.co.uk> CNEWS MUST DIE! <mathew@mantis.co.uk> writes: >scs@iti.org (Steve Simmons) writes: >> In article <q7Ta325w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk writes: >> >"Hopefully" isn't good enough. Nobody told me for weeks, if not months. >> Your newsfeed posted a note here claiming he *did* inform you. >Yes. WHEN THEY THEMSELVES INSTALLED C NEWS. >UNTIL OUR FEED SITE HAPPENED TO INSTALL THE LATEST C NEWS, NOBODY TOLD ME. This is true. >> He also pointed out that he didn't wish to pay the 500 pounds per year your >> solutions would cost. >Bullshit. Not quite bullshit. I pointed out that I wouldn't want to pay the 500 quid or so that *one* of mathew's solutions might end up costing. He has now, I believe, agreed that that particular solution would be unacceptable. Dylan. -- Matthew J Farwell: dylan@ibmpcug.co.uk || ...!uunet!ukc!ibmpcug!dylan You can't kill me, I'm a genius!!!!