Re: Banned from the PowerBASIC forum

Judson McClendon wrote:

>Five emails is not a "flood". But my impression of Tim's 
>comments about "flooding" was that it was primarily the 
>forums, details of which we have not seen from either party.

Direct quote:

 "You attempted to 'flood' our forums with nasty messages at 
  a very high rate.  You then began to flood our emails, too.
  When folks get out of control, we have to deal with it."
                             -- Tim Robbins, PowerBASIC Inc.

I don't see any other way to parse "You then began to flood 
our emails" other than an accusation of email flooding.

Five emails in direct response to an email, a forum post,
being banned from posting, and being banned from reading
is *not* an email flood.  Either Frank Cox is lying like 
a lawyer turned politician or Tim Robbins is.  Frank has
posted what he claims to be every email sent and received
(all five of them) and I just posted every forum post that
wasn't blocked or deleted.  I am, once again, asking Tim 
Robbins to post the emails and forum posts that he claims 
were a flood containing abusive language.

I think Tim Robbins is a liar, but not one who is brazen
enough to actually hand-generate a bunch of bogus emails
and forum posts so as to frame Frank Cox.  I predict 
further evasion, further refusal to answer questions,
further red herrings, no admission of guilt, no apology,
and, in the end, a lapse into silence having trashed the 
good name of a long-time PowerBASIC customer.

I also rather suspect that Bob Zale has examined my headers
to try to identify me and punish me for daring to criticize
PowerBASIC Inc., and that it drives him crazy that he cannot
control what gets posted in comp.lang.basic.powerbasic. 
I just hope that he doesn't punish some innocent third party 
who he suspects of posting this.

It's a shame, really, because the actual product is really,
really good, the technical sup****t is great, and the price
for all this great stuff is really, really low.  One would 
think that, having all that going for them, they could manage
to survive someone criticizing them -- even if wrongly --
without public accusations of flooding that never happened, 
deleting webpages that sup****t the criticism, and banning the
person from even being able to read the forums.

  "All really first class designers are both artists, 
   engineers, and men of a powerful and intolerant 
   temper, quick to resist the least modification of 
   the plans, energetic in fighting the least infringement 
   upon what they regard as their own  sphere of action."
                                          -- Nevil Shute