Re: Looking at Zwave products and need recommendations?

[Robert L Bass <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Our first exchange of email was in 1999 I when I noticed someone posting with
> an email address from our local broadband provider. Like a good neighbor, I
> introduced myself and we had a discussion around how to program the Cisco
> routers we both had. I reviewed today the email that correspondence and find
> simply that I was courteously helpful by answering Dave's questions. Nothing at
> all awry or amiss for normal folk.
>
> But apparently Dave -- whose "instincts about people" are based on dealings
> with _business_ people --  had "alarms [go] off" because in his business
> experience if someone volunteers out of the blue to be helpful without a
> self-serving financial angle is, something is awry.

That night explain why he attacked me publicly for having
privately offered assistance when he asked for help on his
website.

> I am scientist, not a business person. And I now spend most hours of most days
> _donating_ my time and expertise to a variety of matters of public concern
> (google "Marc Hult"). (The newspaper route that I had in junior high school
> requiring  papers to customer by 7AM in sub-zero Minnesota weather brought
> needed money, but taught me that I wasn't going to spend my life working
> primarily for financial remuneration. and I haven't.)

You and I have done business, carried on various email, telephone
and newsgroup conversations over the years.  I always got the
impression that you're just a decent guy who likes to help.  My
"instincts about people" are based on the presumption that most
people, if given the opportunity, are pretty nice.

> So Dave apparently judges the _content_ of my messages by first filtering them
> through a wildly mistaken notion what of he thought/thinks are my intentions
> (rather than focusing on the facts)  and then further distorts the information
> he receives by filtering his newsfeed. No wonder he gets it wrong.

That may also explain his attacks on products he's admittedly
never seen, those who build them and those who sell them.  :^)

> Way sad stuff.

Indeed.
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Regards,
Robert L Bass

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