Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 08:01:32 12/31/01
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On December 30, 2001 at 23:14:58, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>On December 30, 2001 at 20:10:19, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On December 30, 2001 at 18:10:43, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>
>>>On December 30, 2001 at 15:04:11, Kevin Strickland wrote:
>>>
>>>>On December 30, 2001 at 11:58:40, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On December 30, 2001 at 03:06:10, Frank Schneider wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>:-)
>>>>>
>>>>>Four more already today.
>>>>>
>>>>>bruce
>>>>
>>>>Bruce it looks like you have a stalker.. I mean an admirer.
>>>
>>>Three more since then.
>>>
>>>bruce
>>
>>Love at first write?
>>
>> A.S.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>P.S. NC :-)
>
>Apparently not. I got two more. Here is the basic deal.
>
>They sent me a barrage of emails yesterday asking me if I would send them a copy
>of Ferret that played according to their variant, and offering to pay me if I'd
>do it. They also asked me for information about several 6-man endings.
>
>I politely declined to do this work for them, and told them that if they could
>program, they could modify Crafty to play this variant very easily.
>
>Their response was to ask me how much I'd charge, they asked me a bunch of
>questions, and they gave me some specifications for their project. They told me
>that they were going to stick with me: "u r our programmer".
>
>I replied that I wasn't interested in doing the work at this time.
>
>Their response was to ask me when I'd do it (two emails on this topic), they
>gave me some more specifications, they insisted that I answer their endgame
>questions, and they wanted to talk about how much I was going to charge them for
>the work. Having made myself clear, I felt, I did not respond to these emails,
>preferring instead to spend the day watching football on TV.
>
>Seven hours later I got a nice insulting email calling me a moron and an idiot,
>and telling me they'd hired someone else for a price they apparently thought was
>pretty enormous.
I have got exactly the same sequence of emails, but one day earlier.
I did exactly what you did. Declined politely, got an avalanche of insisting
emails, and finally insults.
Who's next? :)
>I hope the guy they hired demands to get paid up front.
:) :)
Christophe
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