Re: Banned from the PowerBASIC forum

Peter Manders wrote:
>
>Frank Cox wrote:
>
>>> In conclusion I can say that I see no way of getting your and
>>> PowerBASIC's viewpoints closer together. So be it.
>>
>>Apparently.  Do you have any comment regarding the unjustified 
>>accusations of email flooding, abusive language, accusation of having 
>>been banned from something that I've never signed up for, and other 
>>disgraceful actions that have been taken by representatives of
PowerBASIC 
>>Inc over the past few days?  (Not to mention my original banning from
the 
>>forum for having posted factual information.)
>
>I cannot comment on those things because I wasn't there at the 
>time to witness them,

They all happened right here in comp.lang.basic.powerbasic in the
last week.  All you have to do is to read the posts from powerbasic
(less than a dozen if I recall correctly.)

>and I haven't seen all of the sup****ting material from both sides.

The one making the accusation needs to supply the evidence.  
PowerBASIC made the above accusations then refused to provide
any sup****ting material.  It seems to me that refusing to judge
because you haven't seen all of the sup****ting material from both 
sides in such a case is not reasonable. 

>On the subject of "that I've never signed up for": maybe
>you did when you chose your name and password for the forums, but I'm
>not sure of that. Usually there's an agreement included to the rules
>of the site owner, but I'm not sure if this applies (or applied) to
>the PowerBASIC forums as well.

Everyone agrees that he was banned from the PB forums.  He was then
publicly accused of being banned from Google Groups, a forum that
he never signed up for.  As usual, no evidence was supplied to back
up that claim.

>>Is this an acceptable way for people you deal with to behave?
>
>That is not for me to decide but to the people you deal with. Maybe
>I'd have responded differently, but that goes for your side too. I
>would have tried to reason one to one first, going public on usenet
>would have been my last choice, if at all.

He *did* try to reason one to one first.  No response to his five
emails.  It is only when he went public that PowerBASIC was willing
to respond to him.  With accusations of email flooding, abusive 
language, being banned from Google Groups, being me, etc.  It seems
that Bob Zale prefers to make his public accusations in a forum 
where he has the power to delete any post by someone who wishes to
dispute his accusations with evidence.