Re: Banned from the PowerBASIC forum

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> Judson McClendon wrote:
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>>Okay Stupid, what part of "how many people do you know who download
>>software from the internet and do not have a phone?" do you not
>>understand?
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>>any person who is "connected" enough to have Internet access and
>>a compiler to run a compiler on will also be "connected" enough to
>>have a phone line. I know lots of people who have Internet access
>>without a landline telephone, but all of them have cell phones or VOIP.
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> And if Judson McClendon cannot imagine something, then it must not
> exist.  You are insisting that deaf people who use only email (TDD
> is rapidly being replaced by email) must either buy a phone that
> they cannot use or not be allowed to purchase software.  Nice!

Why didn't you actually read the post you *partially* quoted from? I was
responding to comments about people not *having* a phone, not people
who didn't want to release their phone numbers.

>>Bob Zale said they already authorized Olav to download the update, and
>>that Olav had done so. The only remaining issue with the phone number
>>appears to be that, for some unfathomable reason, Olav doesn't want to
>>give his phone number again for future downloads, even though PB
>>already has his phone number. To me this is such an irrational position
>>it boggles my mind.
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> I see no evidence that Olav ever gave PB a valid phone number.
> Reading between the lines, I suspect that he gave them
> 000-000-0000 when he bought PB and when he tried to download
> the upgrade.  Or maybe not, but I would certainly expect you
> to consider that possibility before name-calling.

Why don't you consider actually reading my posts before responding?
I used the word "stupid" because of the way Olav was acting *here*
toward me, in this newsgroup, not anything between he and Bob Zale.
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