Digital BW, The Print

"dickbo" <Dickbo@...> wrote the list in response to 
Robert Morrison's post:

> >  Mike, more than anyone
> > I know, has evaluated many of the options (and bought them all).  He
> > certainly has the right to speak his mind about what he sees as the ups >
>and downs of each product.
>
>That statement might indeed be true, but the question is at what point does
>a studied comment become a grudge statement, [snip]

but that was not the question for me. For me, the question was and is 
whether incivility will be tolerated on the list. And I hope not 
because it corrodes the spirit of community which lists need to 
thrive.


>and I would suggest that when the criticism is more frequent than 
>the praise then one is reasonably allowed to suspect that something 
>more than an honest expression of opinion
>is going on around here.

No, one isn't: products don't necessarily deserve praise and 
criticism with equal frequency, and even if they did, honest people 
would sometimes fail to deliver them that way. Why even suspect 
dishonesty, much less air the suspicion on the list?

Suspicions are one thing and published accusations are another. So 
are sly insinuations; I don't think Dickbo's belong on the list 
either.

Sam McCandless                samcc@...