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At 10:26 AM 4/10/1998 -0500, Jim Cobb wrote: >Well, Bott, so you want to relive the entire argument all over again. OK, >sure: > >When I first talked about creating the trimix site, Bott was the most >vociferous person against it. I never did understand why this was, I >figure that he is they type of person who puts more on little cloth >patches people sew to their jackets rather than actual knowledge. > >Bott knows exactly where I live because he published my home address, a >map of how to get here, my home phone number, my work phone number, the >names of my boss and the president the company and encouraged them to >send email to get me fired. My phone rang all night long for 2 weeks and >I was finally forced to change my phone number. > >In addition he mailbombed me several times and got all his butt-buddies >to send me anonymous threats. > >This is a real swell guy. > >What is your motivation, Bott? Why do you have such a hard-on for me and >the web site? So far it has had over 100,000 hits, I have received dozens >of complementary emails. I did receive about 5 emails pointing out minor >errors which I fixed. It still gets 600-700 hits a week. Jim, Bill (aquadart) Butt is a dive shop monkee. He is pissed and outraged because he believes the rightful source of ALL diving knowledge should only be the diveshop. Where the monkee can pretend he worked it all out himself, whack a nice retail margin on the knowledge and the gas, and pump himself up in front of his simian buddies. What people like you with your web site and Vance Harlow with his manual and a handful of lucid, intelligent cave and gas divers and some instructors have done is cut the monkee out of the loop. Oh, he'll still get some students plodding along the retail path to enlightenment. But you and those other guys have diverted the cream and those in search of higher knowledge and there's nothing the monkee can do except shake the tree and scream and rage and gibber. And hang his brightly coloured ass out at everyone. Which behaviour validates everything you and the other guys do. rgrds billyw -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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