Re: Scribe Report Generator - beta testers needed

> Why Alex cannot understand our repeated requests is a mystery.

> I've only asked you to be polite. I haven't commanded, demanded,
> ordained or ruled that you do anything. I neither have nor desire such
> authority.

No, you only "requested" that I go away from the newsgroup that you and four other people apparently came to regard as their own. To back up this "request" (if yelling, shouting and hurling insults can be called a "request") you and the other four pointed me to the group's charter which, upon closer examination, turned out to specifically permit such topics as:

Techniques for more efficient access
Importing and Exporting data

Nevertheless, my invitation to beta-test and give a feedback on a program that addresses both of these topics was judged "marketing", and qualified as spam.

> I have concluded that you are a slow learner to insult and
> argue with potential customers.

I wonder if the hypocricy of this statement is hidden from anyone but yourself. Who are these "potential customers"? A group of people, five in total, who dismissed our work out of hand, not even trying to pretend that they took the time to learn what it is about, but still felt competent enough to insult me for defending my right to post into this NG?

People, who - inspite of being (presumably) professionals - behave like a gang of school bullies, interested only in harrassment and domination, and at times looking more like sharks in a feeding frenzy. People, who could not stomach the idea that some automated tool can render their unique and indispensable skills useless, and engaged into a smear campaign against it and its developers.

And these are our potential customers? Thanks, but no thanks. We will do just fine without them.

Incidently, you could have observed - if you were not so blindingly biased - that I always promptly and politely responded to every post that carried feedback and/or criticism on the essence of the program.

> But it is your choice. This is usenet after all.

Finally, this is beginning to sink in - and you call ME a slow learner?

> PS thanks to others here for their words of support.

And what are you going to say to another 100+ participants in this group (and another 200 in c.d.o.server), whose names are listed in my newsreader, and who chose to ignore the diatribes of the "chosen few"?

In conculuion - primarly because from now on I am not going to repond to anything that comes from this group of people, you included:

• I am not going away. This NG is not your fiefdom, and you will not kick me out or shut me up.
• I will continue to post my invitation to test our report generator, but this invitation, naturally, will exclude you and your "supporters". I will do this regularly, until we get the desired amount of feedback from the users.
• If you value your own peace of mind, I strongly advise you to ignore my posts. Some of your "supporters" promised to tune their newsreaders to killfile my posts; this is a very sound idea, and I urge you to join them.

This is my farewell to you and your "supporters" - but not to this NG. Received on Wed May 19 2004 - 00:15:28 CDT