Re: Banned from the PowerBASIC forum

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>On Feb 8, 3:47 am, me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
>> How about promising that you will give at least one warning before
>> banning someone from posting? (Tem****ary bans that expire without
>> the user having to kiss your ass are OK without warning.)  That way
>> I will have assurance that you are not going to hose my ability
>> to do my job.
>
>Frank Cox--
>
>That's precisely what you received, Frank.

I am not Frank Cox.  I am another PB user using a pseudonym so that 
you cannot do to me what you have done to others, such as branding
someone as a liar and blocking their ability to respond, denying
someone privileges because he doesn't own a telephone, calling that
person a liar because he put down 000-0000 as his phone number when 
your webform wouldn't let him continue without entering a phone
number he doesn't have, and accusing someone of sending an email
flood but refusing to reveal the content or even the number of
emails in the alleged flood.  That's why, under my real name, you
know me as one more respectful longtime customer who has never 
hinted at being critical of PowerBASIC.  You can't punish me 
because you can't find me, and you can't control this newsgroup,
so you are reduced to responding (or refusing to respond) to the
*content* of my posts without any tricks like deleting my posts,
blocking my ability to respond, or blocking my ability to read any
posts.  

>Look, the bottom line is that we do not allow folks to disrupt the
>PowerBASIC Forums.  It's not a playground and it's not a place to
>sling mud.  It's our home -- the home of PowerBASIC, Inc.  We're proud
>of the fine products we produce, and we're proud of our web site.
>When you visit our home, we expect you to behave in a reasonable way.
>If you find that too constraining for your free spirit, you have many
>other choices available to you.  Please consider those options
>carefully.  You might find something that's a better fit for your
>needs.
>
>You know, we spend a lot of money to make the PowerBASIC Forums
>valuable to our friends and customers.  We'd love to have tens of
>thousands of new visitors today.  Tens of thousands of new customers,
>too!  But the purchase of our software does not confer the right to be
>abusive on our forums.  We sell software.  We do not sell the right to
>be abusive.  It isn't for sale at any price.

You can keep singing the above song if you wish, but you still have 
not explained why you banned his IP address so that he couldn't *READ*
the forum.  Banning him from posting was enough to stop him from being 
abusive on your forums.  Do you think we are all too stupid to realize
that?

>We have thousands of visitors to the PowerBASIC Forums every day.  We
>can't (and won't) allow one (or a few) people with a temper problem to
>ruin it for us and for our many friends and customers.  If you can't
>understand that, you're probably better off somewhere else. You can
>"spin" this any way you like, but it's pretty much all I have to say
>on the subject.

Your silence speaks loudly.

No explanation as to why you banned him from reading as well as posting.

No letting us see the content of the alleged flood of emails. 

No letting us see the content of the alleged flood of forum post.

No letting us see the alleged abusive language.

No explanation as to why the web pages that back up his claim 
were taken down.

>Tim (Very proud to represent PowerBASIC Inc.)

It looks to me like the correct term is arrogant, not proud, but
feel free to stop stonewalling and prove me wrong.  I will be happy
to apologize if you ever decide to offer any evidence to back up your 
accusations.