Jarrod, why did they kick you out of the Australian "tec" show, and do you
think it was Mouth and Gilliam who had anything to do with it?

I guess they can see the handwriting on the wall, so to speak.

We need to run our own mini tec shows and DIR demonstrations everywhere to
offset this stupidity. Let's start scheduling a few more of these and really
get these morons panicked.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jarrod Jablonski <JJ@gu*.co*>
To: Gawain.Lynch@fe*.co*.au*
<Gawain.Lynch@fe*.co*.au*>; quest@gu*.co* <quest@gu*.co*>
Date: Friday, June 30, 2000 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: OzTek 2000


>This one is classic.
>
>They ask me six or more months ago to present and I committed to the date.
>Leaving the country during prime exploration is not something I take
>lightly and I pushed several other obligations away, kept the spot open
>despite several good opportunities, and promised my girlfriend a trip to
>Australia.
>
>They had agreed to pay my way over or to have the company sponsor the event
>and get a free booth. We agreed to the latter.
>Then two weeks before departure they send me a mail that says we have
>pulled your speaking spot because we no longer feel we can properly support
>your presence. In essence the show is not doing well enough to let you have
>a booth but we are too crowded to make a free space for you. Rather
>oxymoronic. Of course none of this applied to any speakers other than
myslef.
>
>Feeling pretty certain what games where being played I then volunteered to
>pay my own way, and asked about buying a booth. Their response. No
thanks<G>
>
>Personally the whole thing leaves a bad taste in my mouth but I am sure
>that I can find a way to occupy the time with diving and now I have  a
>better feel for the political games being played by people seemingly afraid
>of information. However, I missed the opportunity to meet people interested
>in diving outside of politics and I have an angry girlfriend. We plan to
>come over on our own in the near future for some DIR demonstrations.
>
>Politics at its best.
>
>Best,
>JJ
>
>
>
>At 07:47 AM 6/26/2000 +1100, Gawain.Lynch@fe*.co*.au* wrote:
>>Does any one have any idea why JJ and Robert are no longer coming to OzTek
>>2000 in Melbourne next month.
>>
>>We were all looking forward to seeing and hearing from them both and now
>>nothing...
>>
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