Brian and List:
Brian, you make a valid point, except for one thing. When
Humanware Customer service starts calling this list a "gossip
list", it makes me wonder how it is they show this list for
subscription on their site. If this is the case, does Humanware,
as a whole, really care about the customers' they're serving, or,
is it just a few bad apples spoiling the rest?
Another thing, as first as comparing our machines to cars,
there is no comparison. Yes, for a car you buy insurance. What
is our maintainance agreement, if not a type of insurance? The
analogy seems all wrong.
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Each day we
hope for accomplishment and satisfaction and we'll achieve these
when we scale our hopes to our real capacities. There's no more
satisfying feeling than finishing a project we've set up
ourselves, tailored to our abilities, and worked at with patience
and care. Our lives can be filled with such successes. Learning
to live means learning to keep ourselves in the present. This
day is all we really have to work with. Of course today will be
influenced by what has already happened; and its influence will
extend to tomorrow, next week, and beyond. But all we can make
or do lies here, within this window of space and time. May my
supper be contentment. I'll breakfast on hope again.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lingard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: <[email protected]
Date sent: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 15:12:35 -0500
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] PacMate Seamless 40 braille display
for sale
Ottawa Canada
Dear Sharon and list:
While on the surface, it might seem fair to carry announcements
of non-Humanware products people have for sale on the list, it
really is off topic and generates traffic unrelated to
Humanware's products.
They provide the mailing list for discussion of their products,
and since they foot the bills, its really only fair to them to
abide by their wishes.
Regarding the discontinuance of maintenance agreements for
transplants with older Tieman Braille displays, I'm not sure why
Humanware USA didn't make a public announcement of this at the
time. I have a feeling they are truly regretting this omission!
People subscribe to this list because they are interested in
information about the BrailleNote/VoiceNote family of products.
There are lists for discussion of Braille displays in general,
such as:
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And the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list discusses anything about
computer use of or for the blind.
When a list loses its focus, it also starts losing subscribers as
they often just can't keep up with the volume of traffic, or
aren't interested in topics other than what the list said it was
for in the first place.
While this isn't the explanation you probably hoped for, I trust
you will understand my line of reasoning.
Brian
Brian K. Lingard
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