Re: Great deal, great product.

[Frank Olson <Use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:

> Sorry to hear of your failure.  Perhaps if you spent more effort
> attending to your own business and less trying to others what to
> do you'd do better.
>
>
>> I'm not interested in joining sides...
>
>
> That's nice.  Your concern is only for the betterment of the
> newsgroup, right?  I can tell by the even-handed way you chide
> the idiots for posting nothing but flames.  Oh, wait.  Somehow I
> must have missed all of those posts.  Were you using yet another
> sock puppet to post those messages?
>
>
>>Making comments regarding how I'm a "sock puppet"
>>probably helps you to justify your behaviour...
>
>
> "Behaviour," eh?  Like I said before, you're an Olson sock
> puppet.
>
>
>>...what you do in this Group is your business....
>
>
> Oh, so you do the ability to learn.  That's good news.
>
>
>>All the same, I would like to see you provide proof...
>
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> Proof that you're a sock puppet or that you're an idiot?
>
>
>>...an apology would be in order.
>
>
> OK, fine.  I'm waiting.
>
>
>>Posting information about DIY is certainly not an ethics
>>violation.  Spamming the Group with links to your online
>>store is clearly against the FAQ...
>
>
> First of all, posting links to my website is not spam.  Second,
> the "FAQ" you keep referring to is nothing but a text which one
> long-departed posted wrote and which no one has ever obeyed,
> especially you.
>
>
>>However, you are an individual in your own right and
>>no one disputes the fact that this is a free and open
>>forum...
>
>
> Actually, it's an ALT newsgroup.  It's open but it's not really
> free.
>
>
>>I do note that most of the participants here are clearly
>>in the alarm business and I don't see anyone but
>>yourself flogging their wares here...
>
>
> Perhaps if you spent some time reading anything other than my
> posts you'd notice that numerous people post links to their
> websites.  That's fine with me whether you like it or not.  I'm
> just as much a part of the alarm business as anyone here.  In
> fact, I probably sell more alarm systems than the rest of the
> regular posters combined (with the exception of those who work
> for ADT, that is).
>
>
>>As far as I know you probably wouldn't be prevented from
>>purchasing a booth at ISC either and you'd be hawking
>>to the "wrong crowd" there too.
>
>
> Your argument is a red herring.  This newsgroup is read by
> hundreds of DIYers and thousands of disenchanted clients of alarm
> installing companies.  My posts are primarily addressed at those
> folks as well as at newby installers.
>
>
>>I will refrain from further discourse with you...
>
>
> Bye.  It's been nice.


Translation:  You can't prove he's a "sock puppet", so you resort to
more childish behaviour.  Typical.

Frank Olson
http://www.yoursecuritysource.com