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Subject: About the Posts About My Post About Results of Poll 16

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 09:33:41 09/06/98


Dear Bob and all:
If the sheer number of posts that a post produce is a signal of something, it
is, then a signal NOT to be pointless as you, Bob, said it is. Let me tell you
that I feel a feeling of harshness in your post about my comments, as if I was
trying to in a way or another to misstreat Crafty.
So both judgements, one open, the other implicit, are wrong.
You know very well, because I have post about it and email to you about it once
or twice, that I have ever desired to own a Crafty in CD Rom and that I even
have thought that you should got a legitimate earning for that. Of course I
respect and admire your decision not to do so, but at the same time I ask from
you not to think or feel that in any way I am trying to put Crafty in a bad
light because only 14% of people here did not show interest in an eventual
purchase.
Also are wrong those that believe than me or anybody else is doing some
presupositions about the luck Crafty could have in the market or even his
quality. I know very well this is an special site and I did not pretend to
deduce anything beyond that. In fact, my post is full of questions, not of
answers.
Wrong are, also, those that make stadistical analysis about these questions as
if they pretend to prove something. If I don't understand badly the spirit of
the poll, is more a matter of fun and curiosity that a kind of scientific tool.
It would be just fair that people treat this effort, made by Steven and by the
guys that ocassionaly post question to be make, with more simpathy and
forgiveness.
In this particular case, I wanto to put clear that I was the father of that
question. I did it because to know what other people here would do IF Crafty
became commercial has been one of the things I have been curious all the time.
Flawed, stupid, pointless? I don not know how just a question made in an
informal poll can be judged in that way; you can say it is not intertesting to
you, but the statistical issue is out of place. In fact, many of the following
post has showed is was not pointless or uninteresting. At least it is now cleasr
that at 25 dollars any guy who pursue the idea to produce a CD with Crafty will
meet interested purcharsers.
In any case, if by reasons I don't understand at the moment Bob feell I have
made some damage to him or his wonderful program, I ask him to forgive me. I was
just trying to be helpfull for the existence of the poll and I believe those
that puted it there thought that nothing wrong was in it.Is my hope they were
not wrong
Fernando



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