Re: What's up on the A2 forum of Delphi access???

[Will Smith <wsmith@ctron.com>]

On 2 Dec 1998, Joe Kohn wrote:

> Personally, I have a very hard time dealing with dishonesty, and especially
> dislike it when people spread rumors, hearsay and outright lies as if they
> were facts. I have a hard time listening to Turley trash all that is good
> in our Apple II world.

ummmm....  Joe?  i have been following this thread for a while.  aside
from a statement from Mr. Turley about his not being able to access
Delphi's Apple II message base, he hasn't said a THING that would possibly
be construed as a flame of any sort (within recent histlry, at least)
here.

in FACT, the only time that he even mentioned your name was in a list that
he referred to "the Powers That Be"...  how THAT is understood as a
flame/lie/hearsay/rumor can only be explained by you.  seeing that English
is my primary language, i thought i had a good grasp of it.  apparently,
i've been kidding myself.

> Just by saying something doesn't make it true. From a DejaNews archive:
>  
>  >A few days ago, for my own personal evaluation and interest in the
>  >Marinetti 2.0 release, I did download Marinetti 2.0 and have used
>  >it with Gus on my G3 Mac, just to see what it's all about and how
>  >it worked. IMHO,  it's a very impressive release, well done, easy
>  >to use and understand.
>  
> You didn't use it with Gus because Gus doesn't support serial ports!
> So, what you said a month ago was an outright misrepresentation.

i've "used" it too.  trick is that it doesn't seem to want to work without
a modem (unless i use scripting, which i haven't had the time to play with
yet).  does that mean i haven't poked around with it?  no.  i'm not trying
to put words in Mr. Turley's mouth, but maybe that's all he did-- play
with it without actually having it connect to anything (which, like you
say, he wouldn't be able to do without serial ports).  i suspect that
there's nothing in Marinetti that would cause it to bomb if there were no
serial ports available...

> You're constantly trying to trash me and the work I do with the Apple II, 

if there's any truth to that, then he hasn't been doing it here.  (if he
HAS, then my employer seems to be filtering those messages out.  -I-
haven't seen 'em.)

> In other words, "When you plant the wind, you reap the whirlwind."
>  
> As I've said many times before, just leave me alone. I'm not the cause of
> all your problems; you are. You're your own worst enemy.

it's my (worthless and unwanted) opinion that you started this round.

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