On Fri, 18 Jun 2004 22:31:09 GMT, Vic Baron wrote:
Well, Dave - he was treated so rudely and, IMHO, unfairly by some members of
this group that he stopped posting. Since then, BTW, I have had occasion to
purchase SlipIt and it's really a great product for certain applications.
Don't know about a rust preventative though, I use Boeshield m'self.

I dunno, I was turned off from the product by the way the guy just
went on and on and on and on about it.

I also remember that Carlo from Jesada used to post quite a bit and even
gave away a few 1/2" bits and he never got the treatment that the fellow
from SlipIt got.

Well, again, it's all about approach. Steve K. sells stuff, but he
also contributes a bunch of knowledge. Same for Charlie S. I don't
remeber Carlo, but it may have been during one of my several long
absences.

Ah, those were the days - also very few trolls IIRC.

Of course, I also remember using the Internet before there was anything
called the World Wide Web. Lynx, Pine, Gopher and Telnet were the buzzwords
then.

What do you mean "then"? I still use a text-based newsreader,
over ssh rather than telnet, but until about a year ago I was using
'tin' which I've been using for newsreading since 1992 or so. Switched
to slrn because it has better killfile and scoring options.

Dave Hinz