Subj : Tiers
To   : Stewart Honsberger
From : Jack Yates
Date : Thu Aug 02 2001 12:26 pm

 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
 SH>>> guess

 JY>> They're quality.

 SH> If you say so. Doesn't sound like it to me, though.

Your opinion was not solicited.

 JY>> Be careful.  You may not be on the side of the cage that you
 JY>> think you're on.

 SH> Oh, but I am. Just becaue I'm not in the majority doesn't in any way
 SH> indicate that I'm wrong.

 SH> Have you always enjoyed being on the side of the majority, Jack?

I haven't always been on the side of the majority, but there are instances
where I'd line up with them and pay admission for a seat at the show put on by
the minority on the other side of the cage.  Then, too, being the Ringmaser
can, on occasion, be fun.


 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.
 JY>> There would never be another mistake in echomail distribution.

 SH> No, you asked me to feed all of the zone. All of FidoNet actually,
 SH> IIRC.

I asked if you *would*, in order to minimize technical errors.  I take it that
you would decline?


 SH> In reality, my declining to offer my servics to the entire zone is my
 SH> way of telling you that I know how far my resources can stretch. I
 SH> don't intend to stretch what I've got so far that it becomes unuseable
 SH> to all involved; I'd rather feed five people with full accessability
 SH> than 100 people who can barely connect.

Only five?  Oh, well; I suppose the rest of us will muddle along somehow.

 SH> Is any of this making any sense to you? Oh, that's right, I'm missing
 SH> words. It's too bad that you're making this up as you go, and the
 SH> rules keep changing. {shrug} Whatever. :>

Rules?  What are you talking about here?  Besides, you are going exactly where
I'm leading you.

 SH>>> make atlest one or two people conscious of the stability of
 SH>>> their systems, or even willing to try to aim higher, then my
 SH>>> work is done.

 JY>> Fine.  I'll try harder; how soon can you be packed?

 SH> Did I say I was leaving?

One can only hope....


 JY>> I'm the boss.  What I don't do right, I get to do over.

 SH> I'm sure your clients just love that. How many times, exactly, can you
 SH> re-bill a client because you've screwed up?

I don't; I absorb my mistakes.  You can't eat scrap steel so I make as little
of it as I can.

 SH>>> quickly would you find yourself on the unemployment line if you
 SH>>> did so?

 JY>> Nuh-uh.  Sole proprietors don't have those benefits. We don't
 JY>> have the government working to find us a job when we screw up
 JY>> badly enough to get fired.

 SH> Where did I mention government assistance in job searching?

You didn't.  I was informing you that this is part of the process for the
unemployed employee.

 SH> You people
 SH> do have some form of unemployment insurance down there, don't you?

For employee-types, not for sole proprietors.



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