Now I'm a threat.

From: Dave Winer <dave@userland.com>
To: "David A. Bayly" <dbayly@udena.ch>
Subject: Re: Re Winerlog
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:42:14 -0800
X-Priority: 3

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From: "David A. Bayly" <dbayly@udena.ch>
To: Dave Winer <dave@userland.com>
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 11:10 AM
Subject: Re: Re Winerlog



> Is this some more of your "big lie' technique? Do you suppose that
> because you don't like me that you can smear some mud  and not get
> 'push-back" as you call it.   Show me a url or shut up.
>
> My public comments have all been about getting my bugs fixed. Until
> now, I refrained from making personal attacks because  I don't know
> you or  care to. All I want is that as an officer of Userland  you
> honour your contract to fix reported bugs in a timely manner,
> something the company has signally failed to do.  You've opted to
> take bug report - bug reporting with fixes , for Christ sakes - as a
> personal affront.   You've been signally rude to me and  people I
> respect;  you've labelled me as pirate without any basis for doing
> so. And now you accuse me of being sneaky and cowardly, angry and
> bitter all at once.
>
> I bet the  assembled respectful audience are going to be glad that
> I'm so cowed by your accusations that I publish them  for all to see.
> I hope you don't expect me to slink off into the darkness whence I
> came, because I'm not about to. I'm not ashamed of anything I've done
> since I've been  using Frontier and nothing you say will change that.
> I  have, however, come to regret spending so much effort on a product
> whose take-up has been so hamstrung by the irrational antics of its
> CEO.
>
> Recall  a lesson from history, that people who blather about
> integrity and  demand respect are generally those who have the least
> of either.  It would be a pity if you  were to be remembered that way.
>
> This exchange posted for your delectation, as promised , linked from
> my news page <http://www.baylys.com:8080/>