Re: SD: Re: Dismissal from ticalc.org

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Re: SD: Re: Dismissal from ticalc.org


So instead of one person's hobby being destroyed, you want to destroy the
hobbies of all the remaining members of ticalc's staff, huh?

Seems a little selfish doesn't it?

At 01:54 AM 3/12/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>At 08:23 PM 3/11/99 -0500, you wrote:
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>>The whole idea of a boycott is pointless.  Does Rabeler own the server?
>>No, so does he have any say in who gets access to it?  No.  Will the
>>boycott get him the position back?  No.  Will boycotting ticalc do
>>anything?  Not really, it will just keep you from getting programs from it.
>> Then after the previous arguments is there a point to a boycott?  No.
>>Oh yeah, I forgot one reason not to.  Will the ticalc staff care if you
>>boycott their site?  No.
>>
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>>Sony is getting ready to lay off 1700 people. Are you going to boycott
>>sony too?
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>I completely agree with a boycott...except that I nowhere else to go until
>other mailing lists are up and running.  Bryan Rabeler himself is seriously
>considering making his own site for calculator programs.  If you think
>about it, the ticalc.org server has to get a minimal amount of hits every
>single week in order to keep the internet connection it is on.  Boycotting
>ticalc.org will force the owners to drop its connection speed.  If no one
>visits ticalc.org, morale among the coordinators will be destroyed, the
>rest of the staff will be in chaos, and people will be leaving ticalc.org
>left and right.  Boycott is one of the oldest and most successful methods
>used even though it is viewed, in many people's eyes, as pointless.
>Without boycott, Civil Rights would not exist.  Think about that for a
>minute.  Blacks want civil rights, we want a staff that is happy and we
>want to be happy.  Bryan played a MAJOR role in making ticalc.org,
>ticalc.org.  Firing Bryan made everyone shocked and upset.  So, a boycott
>may not get his job back, but at least it will demonstrate that **WE** the
>people, not the coordinators, hold the power of ticalc.org.
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>>On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:30:14 +0000 Jeffrey Malone <ieatlint@home.com>
>>writes:
>>>
>>>okay, now if you think i wrote i didn't.  if you know i didn't i will 
>>>tell why
>>>to go along with the boycott:
>>>1.  Because already we have programers who won't post their programs 
>>>on ticalc.org
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>>>2.  Because they are very unfair to their staff members
>>>
>>>3.  Because they have a *REALLY* slow server and it take sometimes 
>>>forever to load.
>>>
>>>4.  Because if you wait a couple of weeks, it will all be over and you 
>>>can say
>>>that you stood up for a just cause.
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