[tlug] Quoting & Listmaster?

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Jim wrote:

> Hi Lyle, The content on [the page you quoted] page [are] Copyrighted. Please be 
>careful when quoting copyrighted material. Particularly, keep quotes
> very brief. Extensive quotes can cause difficulty for not just you, but
> also for the list.

I only quoted part of the articles and I gave the links to the
originals, so the issue is a gray one - you think there was too much
text.  I don't entirely agree, but I'll try to keep future quotes
shorter all the same, since you're unhappy with that.

> I'm glad to see that you've pursued the leads I gave you. 

I don't know - did you?  I found those on my own.  Thanks for sending
the same links (if they were) anyway.  We must both be using Google!  :)
 Incidentally, a lot of the articles out there seem to be based on this
one:
http://www.burtonsys.com/bad_BP6/story1.html

- which includes this bit:
     "Other manufacturers have been less helpful. As Gary Headlee's
capacitor replacement side business grew, he began receiving damaged
boards built by other companies besides ABIT. But when he posted the
list of other boards on his Web site, he received letters from lawyers
representing two manufacturers, prompting him to pull the posting."

I suppose you're afraid the lawyers are going to come after us then?
You have repeatedly refused to offer any information about this issue
other than of the most general kind - are you working for a manufacturer
and acting out of loyalty to the company or something?  Or is it just
worry over manufacturers lawyers?  Free speech R.I.P.?

> Keep writing. 

Gee, thanks Jim!  I need your permission to do that then I take it?
Sorry for the sarcasm there, but you always come across as condescending
and thus rude - do you realize this?  (And I'm not being very polite in
reply I suppose, but you have that effect on people you know!)

> CC: Scott Robbins, Josh Glover

Um... what are you doing here?  Sending it to me, Scott and Josh.
Hmmm.... could you explain the politics of this?

And... um... Are you listmaster?  It seems like you are....

Lyle