🚀 go-pugleaf

OKay guys - let's step back for a second..
First of all, I have no interest in buying any of these machines, so 
don't think I'm biased or anything...

Number one: let's cut off the personal attacks on the newsgroups, okay 
GENTLEMEN.  Either way, one of you is trying to be a salesperson (who 
never wins by publicly flaming/insulting people), and the other is partly 
acting in the capacity of a Duke Employee.  So, either cool it, or move 
it to e-mail.  You're both making Duke look bad on all the other 
newsgroups you crossposted the original to.

Number 2: I'm not sure that the original post was that much of an 
endorsement.  In case you haven't noticed, the department of Computer 
Science often forwards/posts information they receive from Sun 
Microsystems and other companies.  Why these companies?  Because that's 
what the department uses.  Many students/staff/etc. I'm sure are 
interested in obtaining machines compatible with department hardware - 
whether its for personal or academic use.  I don't consider the original 
post a "buy this, because I think it's good" endorsement, rather I see it 
as a "here's what we use, and if anyone else is looking for this, 
so-and-so dealer has a good price on them right now."  So, Dave, I think 
you're making a mountain out of a mole hill.

Number 3:  Dave does have every right to say "Hey, I noticed your post 
about computer prices - and I can match it... contact me at xxx-xxxx.  
Thank you."  So nobody should be jumping on him for his post about "I can 
get them for $600 too."

Number 4:  Dave, take a chill pill.  You seem a little jumpy - throughout 
the two years I've been at Duke, you've been pestering at things that 
very few people would even notice - or even care about.  If you want to 
talk about pesky things that nobody notices/cares about, then we could 
ask why you've changed companies/providers at least twice in the past 
year (interpath.net, digex.net), as well as what you have to Duke University.
I've hear rumors about what you *used* to do with Duke, but I'm sure 
those aren't true - at least I hope they're not true.  I will say no more 
on that topic.

Lastly:  follow-ups to this should either be to the duke.* hierarchy if 
they're meant for public discussion, or via e-mail otherwise.  Either 
way, this discussion has digressed from that appropriate for the comp.* 
newsgroups...

jay
Trinity '98


On 25 Aug 1996, Dave Briggman wrote:

> Date: 25 AUG 1996 02:12:59 GMT 
> From: Dave Briggman <briggman@universe.digex.net>
> Newgroups: duke.general, comp.os.linux.hardware,
>     misc.forsale.computers.workstation,
>     misc.forsale.computers.other.systems, bionet.xtallography,
>     bionet.structural-nmr, triangle.forsale, duke.systems, ., b
> Subject: Re: 2nd Announce: Group Purchase of DEC UDB Linux/NT boxes $750/$600 
> 
> James P. Meyer (jimbob@acpub.duke.edu) wrote:
> : 
> : 	I sincerely doubt that anybody at Duke gives a rat's behind one
> : way or the other.  I know *I* don't, and *I* speak officially in my
> : capacity as a Duke Employee. 
> 
> Well "jimbob" that's because you're a worker bee with no responsibilities.
> Of course, as an Electronics Technician, I don't think you could
> "officially" give someone directions from the FEL Building to the North
> Building.
> 
> 

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