[Coco] Stop the flame wars people.

[Aaron Banerjee]

It's ok, Dennis.   We know how to deal with flames.  Actually, even  
the grey Coco I has a button on it (that isn't even on my fancy-dancy  
Apple keyboard) that helps with flame posts.  It is the CLEAR button...
                   - Aaron

On Aug 26, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm sorry for not catching this. I've been busy with the first week  
> of teaching, and with my opera (premiere Halloween weekend <http://bathory.org/ 
> >)
>
> I've let the CoCo messages go into my mailbox without reading them,  
> and just saw Roger's unsub. And I just read some of the messages.
>
> Please, you know the deal. I've never had occasion to bounce  
> anybody, but please chill for a while so it can stay that way. Lots  
> of good stuff going on. No reason to ruin it!
>
> Happy summer, happy hurricane (headed our way in Vermont, for  
> goodness sakes!)
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
> Your friendly listserv owner
>
>
>
> At 02:10 PM 8/26/2011, you wrote:
>> If you have a beef with others take it off list with them.  Others  
>> like myself don't need to be part of this non-sense.  The first  
>> year I joined this list there was another flame war going on, and  
>> another budding CoCo hardware developer just cut his ties from the  
>> list.  He had proposed some interesting hardware he was working on/ 
>> planning to work on.  But now he has been silent even if he may  
>> still monitor the list.
>>
>> I don't want to see any more people leave the list, let alone stop  
>> developing their hardware or software that extends the life of  
>> these wonderful systems.  Everyone is entitled to develop things  
>> for the old systems, and like the real commercial world out there  
>> many ideas get copied.  There are reasons to choose each, and  
>> reasons to choose neither one or the other.  Advertising has always  
>> shown comparisons to competitors, sometimes advertising is  
>> perfectly accurate and other times advertising is garbage.  We  
>> educated consumers will know what is what and make our decisions  
>> appropriately.  So wether in this case Roger or Cloud9 has the best  
>> product of choose, well we can all decide for ourselves, with what  
>> ever form of advertising they choose.  When my thinly spread big  
>> boy toy budget gets destined to my CoCo, I will choose the product  
>> that has the best options for my needs.
>>
>> Most of us are adults and I am sure we can all agree to disagree.   
>> Yes we take things personally at times, and feel hurt by them.  But  
>> when we continuously retaliate in a public forum, we demonstrate  
>> how silly we can be.  I would say childish but I have seen children  
>> that behave better than some of us here on this list.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ryan Pritchard
>> Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies
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