Subj : Tiers To : Jack Yates From : Stewart Honsberger Date : Thu Aug 02 2001 04:22 am Hello Jack! Aug 01 2001 19:02, Jack Yates wrote to Stewart Honsberger: JY>>> Been with them since '95 and I have no intention of changing JY>>> until we get a better medium of transport here. SH>> Well then if you have no intention of finding a quality ISP, I guess JY> They're quality. If you say so. Doesn't sound like it to me, though. SH>> I find it an interesting human experiment. You all are fascinating to SH>> watch. JY> Be careful. You may not be on the side of the cage that you think JY> you're on. Oh, but I am. Just becaue I'm not in the majority doesn't in any way indicate that I'm wrong. Have you always enjoyed being on the side of the majority, Jack? JY>>> I am not having problems with any of my current feeds. They all JY>>> perform to my expectations and I feel confident that they shall JY>>> continue to do so. SH>> Then why are you asking me for a feed? JY> I didn't ask you for a feed; if you bothered to read the entire JY> paragraph, you were being asked to be the Zhub of all Zhubs, Capo JY> d'Capo, Don of Dons. One hub to serve us all with perfection. There JY> would never be another mistake in echomail distribution. No, you asked me to feed all of the zone. All of FidoNet actually, IIRC. JY>>> Then, if you cannot provide the ultimate solution, why don't you JY>>> just shaddup about the non-existent problem? SH>> When did I claim that I would feed every node in FidoNet? JY> You didn't. You were asked and you declined. Whilst you may have JY> never been guilty of a typo in your programming, you seem to miss JY> whole words while reading. Now you, too, are getting confused. You somehow saw my words as indication that I was offering my services to everybody. It's not at all new for you to make these giant leaps of logic, though, so it doesn't come as any surprise. In reality, my declining to offer my servics to the entire zone is my way of telling you that I know how far my resources can stretch. I don't intend to stretch what I've got so far that it becomes unuseable to all involved; I'd rather feed five people with full accessability than 100 people who can barely connect. Is any of this making any sense to you? Oh, that's right, I'm missing words. It's too bad that you're making this up as you go, and the rules keep changing. {shrug} Whatever. :> SH>> nicely trod into the ground over these past few years. If I can make SH>> atlest one or two people conscious of the stability of their systems, SH>> or even willing to try to aim higher, then my work is done. JY> Fine. I'll try harder; how soon can you be packed? Did I say I was leaving? Weren't you just commenting on my ability to read a message? SH>> What do you tell your boss when you screw up? JY> I'm the boss. What I don't do right, I get to do over. I'm sure your clients just love that. How many times, exactly, can you re-bill a client because you've screwed up? SH>> quickly would you find yourself on the unemployment line if you did SH>> so? JY> Nuh-uh. Sole proprietors don't have those benefits. We don't have JY> the government workling to find us a job when we screw up badly enough JY> to get fired. Where did I mention government assistance in job searching? You people do have some form of unemployment insurance down there, don't you? JY> We try harder; we have to. Well then, good for you. [Stewart Honsberger] [blackdeath@softhome.net] [http://blackdeath.brad-x.com/] "In /1984/, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In /Brave New World/, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us." -- Neil Postman --- Msged/LNX TE 06 (pre) * Origin: Stewart's Echomail Node-Holder (1:229/604) .