Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Illegal Editing, Tampering of ST Report by Greg Lindahl
Summary: Egad!
Message-ID: <1884@electro.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 90 14:17:35 GMT
References: <2824@bdt.UUCP> <1990May31.150018.5437@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <90154.203711SML108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac 'The Ig' Kolenko)
Organization: (formerly of) Branch Always Software
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In article <90154.203711SML108@psuvm.psu.edu> SML108@psuvm.psu.edu (Scott the Great) writes:
>
>  You know, it's stuff like this that makes me want to buy a Mac.  There are
>alot of really neat people out there with ST's doing wonderful things because
>they love their machines who stick by their machine because they know it's
>a neat toy, and then there are those anal retentive misanthropes that give
>the entire user community a bad name.
>
>Greg:  You did a great job with ST Report.  I really enjoyed being able
>to grab it off the net.  Mr. Mariano is a jerk, period.
>
>Mr. Mariano (Wherever you are):  Get a life!

after following this controversy (if you can even call it that - farce is much
more appropriate), i can only say that Mr. Mariano, "Get a life!" (oh god, i
hope that Scott doesn't sue me for copyright infringement on that quote!!!) :-)

i have met Mr. Mariano in person, and i was NOT particularly impressed, and i'm
not concerned if Mr. Mariano thinks less of me now either. i will not go into
details in public, but i expected this reaction to Greg's "tampering". i just
want to say that he was doing a good job, but i guess he's going to have to
stop now. too bad! :-(  
(btw, i don't really read either mag - i have better things to do with my spare
time :-)

this is another reason that i have left Branch Always Software. This kind of
nonesense is simply a huge pain in the butt, and i have no time or patience for
it anymore. i have a life, and it will be involving the Atari even less from
now on. It's a shame. The computer is fantastic, but many of the people involved
with it are just plain idiots and asses (i'm not pointing fingers here at
anyone in particular). i never thought that i would get pissed off at the
atari community ever, but i have, and i'm not going back. and if this
developer (myself) has these views, i'm sure that many others out there share
them as well, and the Atari community will suffer as a result.

all i can say is that i hope this issue is resolved SOON, and amicably.
Otherwise, many people, maybe including myself, will soon be hitting the
'u' key to unsubscribe ...


(my 0.02 (~0.03 canadian) worth!!!)

(this sort of reminds me of the Meech Lake fiasco here in the 
Great White North!)



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