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From: gjerde@winternet.com (Jander)
Newsgroups: winternet.general
Subject: No information!
Date: 7 Jul 1996 01:42:57 GMT
Organization: Lost Tracks Inc.
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4rn4n1$skl@blackice.winternet.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: tundra.winternet.com
Keywords: winternet, stupid
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X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0]

This is just so sad.  Supposedly the new people posted some announcement 
at 5pm about what's going on.  Well, it's not anywhere to be seen.  When 
I called and asked about this, they said there must be a problem, and that 
they would repost the announcement soon.  Well..  It's been a couple of 
hours since I called, and I *still* don't see an announcement.  Are these 
people so fscking clueless that they can't figure out how to post? (They 
were posting to winternet.general which is _not_ moderated in any way)
This is like my 4th post today, and I've had no problems.  Maybe
blackice doesn't like the new guys?

Things were great until these incompetant jerks busted in and took the 
place over.  My advice to Kevin and Michael: Go beg Mike and the other 
former workers to come back, and give your part of the ownership to Mike. :)
[I know, wishful thinking]

This is most lowly, stupid thing I've seen in a long, long time.  You new 
guys (Michael and Kevin) must truly be stupid if you think you can do 
something like this, and get away with it.

----
Ole Gjerde
Homepage: http://www.winternet.com/~gjerde
Email: gjerde@plains.nodak.edu, gjerde@winternet.com, jander@fix.bbs.no
Studying Computer Science at North Dakota State University
"Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
                                                  -- Unknown/Nem Schlecht

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Path: visi.com!winternet.com!blink
From: blink@winternet.com (Brian Link)
Newsgroups: winternet.general
Subject: Re: No information!
Date: 7 Jul 1996 02:52:51 GMT
Organization: StarNet Communications, Inc
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <4rn8q3$4bl@blackice.winternet.com>
References: <4rn4n1$skl@blackice.winternet.com>
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I called around 4:00 pm and asked what was up, and was told the board
fired Mike. Then I called back to ask when the server would be up. Two
and a half hours? was the response (with the question mark, as if they 
were asking for my approval..). Well, that was 5 hours ago. 

This is so lame. 

BLink


Jander (gjerde@winternet.com) wrote:
: This is just so sad.  Supposedly the new people posted some announcement 
: at 5pm about what's going on.  Well, it's not anywhere to be seen.  When 
: I called and asked about this, they said there must be a problem, and that 
: they would repost the announcement soon.  Well..  It's been a couple of 
: hours since I called, and I *still* don't see an announcement.  Are these 
: people so fscking clueless that they can't figure out how to post? (They 
: were posting to winternet.general which is _not_ moderated in any way)
: This is like my 4th post today, and I've had no problems.  Maybe
: blackice doesn't like the new guys?

: Things were great until these incompetant jerks busted in and took the 
: place over.  My advice to Kevin and Michael: Go beg Mike and the other 
: former workers to come back, and give your part of the ownership to Mike. :)
: [I know, wishful thinking]

: This is most lowly, stupid thing I've seen in a long, long time.  You new 
: guys (Michael and Kevin) must truly be stupid if you think you can do 
: something like this, and get away with it.

: ----
: Ole Gjerde
: Homepage: http://www.winternet.com/~gjerde
: Email: gjerde@plains.nodak.edu, gjerde@winternet.com, jander@fix.bbs.no
: Studying Computer Science at North Dakota State University
: "Unix _IS_ user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are."
:                                                   -- Unknown/Nem Schlecht