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[Jackson Alley <jalley AT toomanymirrors.homelinux.com>]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 09:51:02 +1000
Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 02:40, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> > > I came across a funny posting while looking through old list archives.
> > >
> > > https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-sorcery/2002-October/000456.html
> > >
> > > I can provide a land mail address, or I should I send an invoice ?
> >
> > If we did that you'd all be fat and happy from the mistakes I alone have
> > made. ;)
> >
> > -sandalle
> 
> Everyone makes mistakes, how the mistake is handled is the important point.
> I just found it ironic considering it was posted by the same person who 
> caused 
> me 20+ hours work repairing my remote login machines, delayed my ISO 
> schedule 
> and increased my workload by unilaterally removing features we all relied 
> on 
> and whose lack of common sense testing necessitated 9 stable sorcery 
> releases 
> in 5 weeks. 
> Alongside the other problems, I don't understand how smgl finds that 
> acceptable, but that isn't my concern anymore. 
> If it were a commercial project, I would have been compensated for all my 
> work 
> [1], and the continued distribution of my name and email would be 
> acceptable . Unfortunately I received no compensation and the unqualifed 
> distribution [2] of my name and email is a personal affront.
> 
> Hamish Greig
> 
> [1] ignoring that employees wreaking such havoc would be dismissed if they 
> showed the same recalcitrance. I don't think the commercial aspect is 
> significant either, I can't imagine the kernel developers putting up with 
> similar either.
> [2] unqualified, meaning anyone reading my name in the grimoire files, 
> doesn't 
> immediately know I left the "open" project in disgust because it had no 
> tools 
> and no intentions to deal with the problems I encountered.
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I am truely saddend to read this message Hamish, this is obviously a direct, 
personal and unprovoked attack on a mailing list that you supposedly no 
longer subscibe to, on a volenteer project you no longer support. I feel the 
need to appologise to Eric and thank you for all of your hard work. I for one 
apprciate it very much.
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