Re: of product promotion and consumer representation

[Paul Rickard <mail@msbc.simplenet.com>]

ericb@pobox.com

>Paul Rickard wrote:
>
>>Gene Gaines <gene.gaines@ibm.net> writes:
>> > Lewis, shut it off.  Drop it.  You have a view.  You have expressed
>> > it as nauseum.  Continuing to beat the same drum is not useful.
>> > Beat your drum perhaps once a month and we all will respect you.
>> >
>> > IF YOU CANNOT DO THIS, I PROPOSE YOU BE BANNED FROM THE LIST.
>>
>>I'd like to add my voice in support of this.
>>
>>Current Mettlerometer:  70 of the previous 100 articles in my AM spool
>>contain the words "Lewis" or "Mettler".
>>
>>This does not make the list more useful.
>
>
>Before we consider that, we should try not responding to him.  I 
>personally started filtering all Lewis's messages (and even some 
>replies to his messages, ie email that contains "Lewis Mettler 
>wrote:") into my trash mailbox several days ago.
>
>The only person who was forcibly removed from this list was Brett, 
>because he took almost every thread and tried to turn it into an 
>anti-GPL discussion even if nobody else brought it up.  It seems to 
>me, however, that Lewis does not hijack every thread in this manner, 
>even though his tactic of putting words in peoples' mouths is quite 
>irritating.  At least he does have things to say about issues other 
>than bundling.

   That was Paul Crowley, not me. I'm technically ignoring this thread. 
But, it does seem like LM has a bad habit of pushing everything towards 
bundling..


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