[Coco] Stop the flame wars people.

[Dennis Bathory-Kitsz]

Hi all,

I'm sorry for not catching this. I've been busy with the first week 
of teaching, and with my opera (premiere Halloween weekend 
<http://bathory.org/>)

I've let the CoCo messages go into my mailbox without reading them, 
and just saw Roger's unsub. And I just read some of the messages.

Please, you know the deal. I've never had occasion to bounce anybody, 
but please chill for a while so it can stay that way. Lots of good 
stuff going on. No reason to ruin it!

Happy summer, happy hurricane (headed our way in Vermont, for goodness sakes!)

Thanks,
Dennis
Your friendly listserv owner



At 02:10 PM 8/26/2011, you wrote:
>If you have a beef with others take it off list with them.  Others 
>like myself don't need to be part of this non-sense.  The first year 
>I joined this list there was another flame war going on, and another 
>budding CoCo hardware developer just cut his ties from the list.  He 
>had proposed some interesting hardware he was working on/planning to 
>work on.  But now he has been silent even if he may still monitor the list.
>
>I don't want to see any more people leave the list, let alone stop 
>developing their hardware or software that extends the life of these 
>wonderful systems.  Everyone is entitled to develop things for the 
>old systems, and like the real commercial world out there many ideas 
>get copied.  There are reasons to choose each, and reasons to choose 
>neither one or the other.  Advertising has always shown comparisons 
>to competitors, sometimes advertising is perfectly accurate and 
>other times advertising is garbage.  We educated consumers will know 
>what is what and make our decisions appropriately.  So wether in 
>this case Roger or Cloud9 has the best product of choose, well we 
>can all decide for ourselves, with what ever form of advertising 
>they choose.  When my thinly spread big boy toy budget gets destined 
>to my CoCo, I will choose the product that has the best options for my needs.
>
>Most of us are adults and I am sure we can all agree to 
>disagree.  Yes we take things personally at times, and feel hurt by 
>them.  But when we continuously retaliate in a public forum, we 
>demonstrate how silly we can be.  I would say childish but I have 
>seen children that behave better than some of us here on this list.
>
>Regards,
>
>Ryan Pritchard
>Fun Extends All Basic Life Expectancies