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Subject: Re: Mike Cochran's impertinence
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 96 22:20:32 -0000
From: Jim Cobb <ir002538@po*.in*.co*>
To: "Reef Fish" <RFLNG@CL*.ED*>, "Tech Diver" <techdiver@terra.net>
What about the CHILDREN, ling, huh? WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN??? 

>On Tue, 2 Jul 1996 04:14:12 -7000 (PDT), Mike Cochran <mcochran@ne*.co*>
>posted a piece of complete impertinence under the SUBJECT: "2nd Message
>C.J. & legal correction."
>
>
>Mike Cochran has again joined the long parade of incompetent fools in his
>company in the latest exhibit of his MODUS OPERANDI -- ad hominem attack
>on customers/critics instead of removing the DEFECTS in Cochran products
>which they disclosed!   Mike attacks even when the thread was NOT about
>Cochran or Cochran products, when he THOUGHT he had an excuse to do so.
>
>
>In this particular instance, Mike Cochran's audacity and bad manners have
>been exceeded by his excess in bad taste and absence of Netiquette & ethics.
>Mike, you've just made a DAMN FOOL of yourself (again!) because:
>
>
>1.  Look at the SUBJECT.   It's about Chuck Jone's 2nd Message and related
>    legal matters in the Chuu Ha archeological incident!   It's NOT about
>    any odious Cochran tin boxes, products, or about Mike Cochran!
>
>
>2.  What you have posted is from my PRIVATE EMAIL to your imbecile friend
>    (and shill) Jim Cobb, who posted it!   And used it as an excuse to
>    call you a "saint."   Mike Cochran, you are a BIGGER SWINE than Cobb!
>    It's bad enough that Jim Cobb can't read and knows nothing about the
>    Usenet Guidelines or the ethics of not posting PRIVATE email without
>    the writer's permission, Mike Cochran is DUMB enough to think he can
>    parlay that to his advantage.
>
>
>3.  Mike, don't flatter yourself that you are important to anyone enough
>    for me to pick on YOU.   Read my PRIVATE EMAIL passage under (4).
>    Don't you think that could have been a perfectly valid PUBLIC posting
>    for me to make in response to Cobb instead of mailing it to him in EMAIL?
>
>    You and your company are HISTORY in my book, and those of many others.
>    Anyone interested in any of the Cochran's shameful past can look up
>    the archives, and JUDGE FOR THEMSELVES.   Perhaps Cochran just wants
>    to start a new chapter of his shameful present.    Go for it, Mike.
>
>
>4.  There's nothing wrong with the passage Mike chose to use EXCEPT:
>
>    (a)  It was in a PRIVATE EMAIL to Mike's imbecile friend Jim Cobb.
>
>    (b)  I am quite capable of POSTING the same.  But I didn't.
>
>    (c)  Mike, this was the COMPLETE paragraph in the EMAIL Jim Cobb
>         posted!   Don't quote it out of context by chopping out the most
>         pertinent parts:
>
>>>Yeah, I was the CONSUMER ADVOCATE who exposed Cochran's Nemesis-Pro as
>>>a piece of unsafe and useless tin-box;  exposed Cochran himself and the
>>>WetOne as PUBLIC LIARS (without ANY denials from them on specific lies
>>>charged);  and drove them off the net for posting thinly-disguised ads.
>>>What more do you want? I did get some help from Carl Heinzl and a few
>>>others in exposing Cochran and his company for what they are though.
>
>and it was my response to Jim Cobb's worthless comment in the Jones thread,
>
>JC> Say, aren't you that MANIAC on rec.scuba who has spent half his life
>JC> railing against Cochran dive computers?
>
>
>5.  Mike, I hope your posting has earned you a few new, admiring customers
>    for your mahvelous products!   You are such a SAINT!
>
>-- Bob.

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