Re: Running tasks on a PC. (OT)

["Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Dave!  I appreciate the perspective.   I think I'm just too naiive.
I'm basically an AS/400 programmer who happened to get into the writing and
publishing game. I don't always "get" the more subtle nuances of all this!
So I gain by people like you giving me feedback like this.

Thanks again!



Shannon O'Donnell


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave" <dschopp@xxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:09 AM
Subject: Re: Running tasks on a PC. (OT)


> "Shannon O'Donnell" <sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> helped spread the news by saying:
>
> > I find it really interesting that every time I make a post on this
> > list to one of the free pieces of software on my site in response to
> > someone's question, that I get tons of downloads of that tool/utility,
> > and at least a quarter or more of those downloads contain obviously
> > phony contact information.
> >
> > You'd think that when someone offers something for free and someone
> > else thought enough of it to download it and try it out that providing
> > a little bit of contact information wouldn't be asking too much.
> >
> > But perhaps I am being too naiive on this and people feel that if I'm
> > dumb enough to offer something for free then they deserve to get it
> > with no strings whatsoever attached.
> >
> > I'm sure this says something about our society, but not sure what the
> > lesson is here...
>
> Shannon -
>
> nothing against you or the other legitimate and responsible developers /
> vendors / distributors on the Internet, but you gotta understand - we have
> NO idea who's on the other end of the net connection.  I've never met you,
> but I feel I "know" you from the years (and years and years...) of your
> involvement with my favorite AS/400 magazine.  Many of the users here may
> NOT have the knowledge of who you are.
>
> I think what it says about our society is that due to the number of
> unsolicited (i.e., SP*M) messages we receive, we're reluctant to give ANY
> identifying information.  The number stories of identity theft seem to be
> increasing daily.  Know my name?  you can easily find out my phone number,
> home address, and even more that I may not want divulged.
>
> We're growing up in a society where the slogan seems to be changing from
> "Be all that you can be" to "Be whoever you want to be".  Cynicism
> abounds.  It's becoming the nature of the (Internet) beast.
>
> --
> David Schopp
> WISDM Team Leader
> Computers Unlimited
>
> (Join us in AOL chatroom "midrangedotcom")
>
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