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Subject: Re: New Poll Results... So Far Pretty Intriguing.

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 08:34:19 09/29/99

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On September 29, 1999 at 05:51:03, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:

>On September 28, 1999 at 16:14:25, KarinsDad wrote:
>
>>Yes, that is a fact. Another fact is that 5 out of the top 6 programs are CB
>>programs and that the only top 6 program that is not a CB program does not have
>>autoplay, so these volunteer people would have to play every move manually with
>>it.
>
>Would you trust the word of somebody under prosecution? Would you let him free
>just because he says I'm not guilty? Or would you ook for some evidence?

That's the entire point. These guys are volunteers who do a service for our
small community and are NOT under prosecution.

To even suggest any wrongdoing without evidence (beyond circumstantial) is not
only ludicrous, by incredulous. One of the rules on this web page is that
abusive and libelous posts are to be deleted. And then a basically abusive and
potentially libelous opinion poll question is asked (IMO).

If the
>doubt that the SSDF list is not correct is raised you can't use conclusions
>drwan from it to argue in its fawor.

Of course you can. If you have some circumstanial evidence that can be
interpreted in two different ways, of course you can use that same evidence to
argue in either direction.

>>No amount of "spinning" or creative obfuscation can change these facts.
>
>Well the only thing that is evident to me is that they could have had waited to
>publish a more complete list: it is clear that now it is a turning point because
>of the new hardware (by the way I wonder for how long they will find K6-II to
>buy) but that's a good reason enough to say: we have now list for a while
>because we need more data. To say no news is way better to report partial
>truths...IMHO

And you are entitled to that opinion. Of course, hindsight is often better than
foresight, but I have a feeling no matter what decision would have been made,
someone would have complained about it. It's basically a lose-lose situation for
those guys and people such as yourself are not cutting them any slack. Are you
positive that you would have made a better decision yourself if you were part of
their team? If so, you are a better man than I.

>
>regards
>Franz

Regards,

KarinsDad :)



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