Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!psuvm!jkt100 From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Flaming without reading Message-ID: <90076.164940JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Date: 17 Mar 90 21:49:40 GMT References: <1990Mar16.211641.6821@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <424@oregon.oacis.org> Organization: Penn State University Lines: 52 In article <424@oregon.oacis.org>, jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org (John Meissen) says: > > >................. I tell the phone geek that the 5.05 patches > >complain about not having the right version to patch. Suprise, > >surprise - he actually knew that a wrong 5.04 was shipped out. > >So somebody else reported it before you did, and you don't get the >gold star for being the first. So sorry! He didn't say he was the first. He said he was surprised the guy he was talking to knew there was a problem. Lattice phone service has been known in the past for claiming ignorance about well known bugs/defects/problems etc. > >......... His solution - "Wait a couple of weeks - we are > >preparing a new 5.05 to take care of the bad 5.04 disks." > >You would rather they didn't change it? > > >What Lettuce should be doing, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY CLAIM THAT ONLY A > >*SMALL* number of the 5.04 disks were bad, is send out a set of > >5.05 MASTERS. Not the manuals, just the masters. Hell, they must > >have them, after all - what are they selling? > >Sheesh! What a bone-head! First of all, if they don't have a fix yet >they probably aren't shipping anything. Of course they have a fix. PLEASE READ. Lattice sent out 2 versions of 5.04, a very few of which were bad. The patch does not work on these few, but it does work on most of them. What he is saying is that Lattice should not make the unfortunate owners of these few bad copies wait when all Lattice has to do is send them a working version of 5.05 instead of making them wait for a patch. >The product consists of 5 disks. Your "solution" >would mean shipping 2,500 disks, at around a buck or more a disk. I'm having some trouble believing that Lattice would have to send out 5 whole disks. If this bug required more than 2 disks, it is serious enough to warrant actually sending out the disks anyway. Kurt -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- || Kurt Tappe (814) 862-8630 || "This town needs an enema." || || 600 E. Pollock Rd., #5705 || - Joker, "Batman" || || State College, PA 16801 --------------------------------------|| || jkt100@psuvm.bitnet or jkt100@psuvm.psu.edu || || or jkt100%psuvm.bitnet@psuvax1 QLink: KurtTappe || ----------------------------------------------------------------------