bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) (04/09/90)
Moderator of rec.audio.high-end: WHY did you allow the posting of that crap article from David Ornitz regarding the Armor-all research? I was taken in completely, wasted considerable time reading and rereading, and replying to it, and wasted a phone call to the east coast. [I don't know who David Ornitz is; I've had some correspondance with Barry Ornitz, and have sent a message to him asking whatinthehell is going on. More later. -tjk] The clues were *very* subtle (too much so), and the date on the article WAS NOT APRIL 1! [Hey, I missed it to. It's a rather well-known fact that "gullible" is my middle name. -tjk] When I spoke to him on the phone, David's comment (with a big grin on his face) was that it was a 'tradition' in rec.audio. IT WAS NOT POSTED TO REC.AUDIO! [The message came to me via "info-high-audio@csd4.csd.uwm.edu" which is the address for the mailing list Info-High-Audio, which I started, and is gatewayed each way to rec.audio.high-end. A query to the SMTP server at kodak.com tells me that "nobody@kodak.com" is aliased to "/dev/null". No doubt the name alone should have told me something. See my comment above. -tjk] The majority of messages in rec.audio.high-end could be classified AT BEST as mid-fi articles. A number of times I just about wrote you expressing my concern at the low-end level of postings. Now I'm convinced -- this really isn't a high-end group at all. And you're not taking your job seriously. [Job? What job? I do this for entertainment, which is what audio is all about for most of us. Why didn't you write? How am I going to know what the readers of the newsgroup want if they never tell me? You come up with a good definition of high-end audio, and I'll use it. Religiously. Be prepared for one article every two weeks. -tjk] Lest you think this is just sour grapes, it's not. I like a good joke as much as the next guy. But this Armor-all posting was a bad joke, poorly executed as a joke, and approaching malicious in nature. It wasted a lot of bandwidth in a group whose moderator should have known better than to post it. [I agree, it's a waste. It was a poor joke, if joke is what it was. -tjk] I believe the net is owed an apology by both you and David Ornitz. [I'm sorry I'm a bonehead. I'm sorry you can't take a joke. I'm sorry I ever got myself into this mess. Tell you one thing though... We'll be going back to a digest format, so I can take my time and exercise a little more control. If I ever get some time (fat chance), you'll see some stringent guidelines posted which will be applied to all the incoming postings. Please send me your comments, to "tjk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu" -tjk] --Bill Blue
bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) (04/10/90)
In article <9004071622.AA08851@crash.cts.com-> bblue@crash.cts.com (Bill Blue) writes:
->Moderator of rec.audio.high-end:
->
->WHY did you allow the posting of that crap article from David Ornitz
->regarding the Armor-all research? I was taken in completely, wasted
->considerable time reading and rereading, and replying to it, and
->wasted a phone call to the east coast.
->
->[I don't know who David Ornitz is; I've had some correspondance with Barry
->Ornitz, and have sent a message to him asking whatinthehell is going on.
->More later. -tjk]
->
->The clues were *very* subtle (too much so), and the date on the
->article WAS NOT APRIL 1!
->
->[Hey, I missed it to. It's a rather well-known fact that "gullible" is my
->middle name. -tjk]
The first paragraph, on the April 6 article said " the article was posted
internally last weekend."
And I at first thought it was an April Fool's joke, and then I too believed
it. But then I laughed out loud when I came to line 360.
L-monomethyl, lirpanoic butryate (sic).
^^^^^^
If the name I. Lirpa or Eno Lirpa didn't leap out at you then, you haven't
been reading the April editions of many mags.
I thought it was wonderfully done.
->
->When I spoke to him on the phone, David's comment (with a big grin on
->his face) was that it was a 'tradition' in rec.audio. IT WAS NOT
->POSTED TO REC.AUDIO!
->
And it was signed by Barry, not David - and posted by nobody@Kodak.com
->Lest you think this is just sour grapes, it's not. I like a good joke
->as much as the next guy. But this Armor-all posting was a bad joke,
->poorly executed as a joke, and approaching malicious in nature. It
->wasted a lot of bandwidth in a group whose moderator should have known
->better than to post it.
->
->[I agree, it's a waste. It was a poor joke, if joke is what it was. -tjk]
->
->I believe the net is owed an apology by both you and David Ornitz.
->
->[I'm sorry I'm a bonehead. I'm sorry you can't take a joke. I'm sorry I ever
->got myself into this mess. Tell you one thing though... We'll be going back
->to a digest format, so I can take my time and exercise a little more
->control. If I ever get some time (fat chance), you'll see some stringent
->guidelines posted which will be applied to all the incoming postings.
->
->Please send me your comments, to "tjk@csd4.csd.uwm.edu" -tjk]
->
->--Bill Blue
Aw c'mon guys. It WAS funny. And this posting makes it even funnier.
[Thanks, Bill. Enough of the joke, guys. Let's talk about some audio.
Further postings on this subject rejected. -tjk]
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