On Monday 2003 December 08 10:14, Tom Wade VMS Systems wrote:
....
> >Your insistence on having things your way seemed very childish and
> >whiney to me and probably a number of others.
>
> No more churlish than announcing on this forum that certain information was
> available, but was not being posted here in order to provide an incentive
> to pay over money. Both sides have a point, and neither position is really
> as childish as it sounds.
My intent primarily was to provide "the headlines" --- to sketch the coverage
of the meeting so folks would have at least some idea what occurred while
they were waiting for the full report from USMA in Metric Today. A number of
inquiries on the mail list prompted that message of mine. Secondarily, my
comments were meant to serve the same function as movie previews --- to
encourage folks to subscribe to MT by mentioning the type of news coverage
that they might expect by joining USMA.
If anyone felt cruelly taunted by those snippets of information, my apologies
since that was not my intent. But I stand by my two main points.
1. Neat things were discussed at the FPLA forum.
2. There is an advantage to becoming a USMA member.
GIve'em a centimeter and they'll beg a meter, it seems.
Jim
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