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Hey Royal-

"His latest posting, once again cowardly sent as an anomymous message,"

"too chicken to sign his own name"

Funny, this sounds like tactics from your side of the aisle. What next, 
you going to accuse him of posting your home address and phone number, 
employers names and addresses on the internet?

Don't hold back, do what comes naturally.


On 10/16/97 12:51 PM Bill Royall wrote:

>It is sad.
>
>I guess that if teh crap that George Irvine and Company perpetrates on
>the Internet were not so venal and loathsome, it would be downright
>comical in its ineptitude.  His latest posting, once again cowardly sent
>as an anomymous message, says that Bret Gilliam was fired from his
>position as CEO of UWATEC.  Of course, his transparent duplicity is
>obvious to anyone with an IQ above room temperature.  None the less,
>Gilliam still rules at UWATEC much to Irvine's obvious torment.
>
>What's so funny is that Irvine makes the preposterous announcements only
>to have them immediately proven false to even the most casual observer.
>What kind of mutated world does he live in?  Why would anyone set
>himself up as such a fool?  You have to ask yourself when this moron has
>time to do anything except pound his keyboard (and obviously his pud
>considering his favorite expression is "stroke") posting various
>Internet garbage that everyone knows is completely made up. 
>
>But his repetitious pattern of obvious lies and misinformation should be
>a case study for paranoid dysfunction.  There is really no secret at the
>source of his animus to Gilliam.  Ever since that scathing article he
>wrote in Deep Tech (Bravo!) exposed Irvine to be the scum that he really
>is, Gilliam has replaced Bill Stone, Jim King, Tom Mount, etc, as
>Irvine's target.  The list is endless.
>
>What's amusing to me is that Irvine really thinks that anyone takes him
>seriously or that anyone doesn't see through the absurd charade of his
>mis-attributed postings when he's too chicken to sign his own name.  And
>the idea that millionaires like King and Gilliam might be affected by
>Irvine's rants only sadly reflected his continued distorted view of
>reality in an industry that has no time for him or his nutcase
>disciples.
>
>By the way, in spite of Irvine's protestations to the contrary, a source
>at Scubapro has confirmed that ALL ties to Irvine and the WKPP have been
>withdrawn.  Apparently the guys at the top of that company were stunned
>to learn of Irvine's antics and quietly sent the word down the ladder to
>cut off any association between Scubapro and Irvine.  An examination of
>Scubapro's website will show that the WKPP has been completely removed
>and one of their sales reps confirmed that absolutely no further
>sponsorship will be made.  So my guess is that we can now look forward
>to Irvine slamming Scubapro.
>
>Meanwhile, real professionals like Jim Bowden and Ann Kristovich
>continue to be fully sponsored by Scubapro and UWATEC.  Is there a
>lesson to be learned here?
>
>Bill Royall
>

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