Re: Notice of REMOVAL-- saving KF

[CUTblakeney@home.com (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sun, 01 Aug 1999 13:39:34 -0500, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>     Yes; you did say _this_ year. Sorry about the mistake.

Thank you.  I accept your apology.

>     Still, here we are a week after KF99 and no announcement (that I've seen posted
>to Csa2) of any KF report from the KF organizers or participants. Dr. Tom got us the
>news while it was hot.

There are still some people who haven't even returned home from KFest
yet so it is not surprising to me that there are no KFest reports out
yet.  Myself, I've spent the last week getting caught up on messages
here, on Delphi, in e-mail as well as visiting with family (my brother
from Florida was here when I got home), getting back to work and a ton
of other stuff.  I still have tons of stuff to do and I have almost 15
hours of video from KFest to go through so that I can make my report
more accurate.

I'll be putting up my KFest report when it is done.

>     Possibly because reading messages there is something of a hassle. You have a
>pile of stuff arranged in time sequence and no easy way for following a
>conversational thread.

I have no problems following most threads.  I'm pretty sure the KFest
related ones are limited to one or two threads at present so it is
quite easy to just keep reading the next message in a thread.

Maybe the web side is different but I haven't run into any real
difficulties reading threads with Crock O'Gold, the offline reader
scripts for Spectrum.

>     Besides, just reading the messages is pretty boring. Dr. Tom did the work of
>sorting out the threads and made the reading fun with his commentaries.

I just scanned through Tom's article as I had already read all the
posts on Delphi.  I'm curious as to what sort of comments he could
have added that would have made any sense seeing as he wasn't at
KFest.

>     Then, too, the net result of Dr. Tom's work has been to promote interest in
>KFest. Why should anyone who wants to see a bigger better KFest complain?

No one is complaining about him promoting KFest.  I think that KFest
should be promoted more than it has been in the past.  People are
complaining about him using posts without permission from the posters
or from Delphi.

>     If you say something in public, then, do not be too shocked if someone says
>that you said it.

Saying that you said something and using everything you said in its
entirety are two different things.

>     Obviously, the persons quoted by Dr. Tom did not intend for their comments to
>be private. If you want privacy, you can use email. 

You are making assumptions here and you know what happens when you
assume things.

I haven't even touched on the fact that Tom also used posts from
people that have asked him, sometimes repeatedly, to never use their
posts or put anything of theirs on his web sites.

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