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In article <4JAN93.16060183@cc4.crl.aecl.ca> csullogg@cc4.crl.aecl.ca writes:
>RE: posting Darek's note on the net, that fool and his constant bitching
>both deserve to be exposed on the net. Anyone else (including guys like
>Daniel Eriksson) who think otherwise should take a hike. I have had it with
>Darek and other fools like him. Darek - stay in the PC interest group and
>stay out of the Atari interest group. I, and many others, are tired of
>your crap.

Really, Derek's been going pretty light on the bitching lately.  Now
you'll just get him going again (and rightly so).

Daniel has done a lot for this group, and I hardly see his defense of
Darek here as some kind of sell-out.  Daniel would do us all a favor to
ignore your request that he take a hike.

Darek has a PC.  He works for Microsoft.  He writes PC software about
16 hours a day, I'd imagine.  None of these things, however, changes the
fact that he's written some of the best-selling ST software ever made.
I think it's safe to say that he knows what he's talking about when it
comes to technical matters regarding both the ST and the PC, despite
his obvious bias towards PC (against ST's?).

>BTW, I'll gladly repost anyone's private mail if they attack me for
>my net comments. Take that as a warning if you want to send me a nasty
>note!!!

With this is mind, I'll save you the trouble by responding publicly.
Darek has posted some inciteful stuff in the past, but the message you
quoted from -- even if it had been public, which it wasn't -- was
hardly flame bait.  Contentious, yes.  Out of order?  No.  (IMHO)

Posting private email, BTW, is arguably illegal in many countries,
since the paper analogue -- publishing a private letter from someone
in a magazine, newspaper, etc. without their permission -- is illegal.

We went through this a few years ago.  You could ask in misc.legal for
a more definitive answer, but at the very least posting private email
is seriously frowned upon.

Dave Baggett
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