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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 14:49:08 -0400 (EDT), Ken Manheimer wrote: >> On August 13, Robert W. King <rwking@ipa.net> wrote: >> >> >Hi Paul (or anybody else who wants to chime in)! >> > >> >I've more or less decided to upgrade my 701CS to a 2.1 gig hard drive >> >presuming >> >I can find one for a price I can afford. The problem is identifying >> >vendors who >> >> Yeah, be careful about Poop Portable Enhancements, after >> all the spamming and kiss-ups they've done on this list. > >I find this to be offensive. I happen to thing that portable >enhancements have been getting a bum rap by a vocal minority >(actually, on the basis of his amount of posting, on his own paul >would seem to constitute a vocal majority:-), but had been quiet about >it. However, i think the kind of thing you're spouting now is >unnecessary, gratuitous, and in fact injurious to some people's >livelihoods, and that's not fair. > >I should say that i have *no* connection with the company, other than >being a satisfied customer. I got a 2.1 gig drive from them (which i >reported on the list, at the time) for a decent price and with very >decent results. I felt well informed by them - in particular, i found >them to be quite candid about the impact of getting a CPU upgrade when >i enquired of it in person. (They cautioned that i might not see a >big performance increase in the 701, for the reasons that have been >bandied about on the list, and i did not do so.) I feel that their >postings are in general *not* out of bounds, and would have no >hesitation about recommending them. > >Regardless, i consider the remarks to be excessively snide and >uncalled for, and don't like to see that on the list. Please stop >(and maybe consider slowing down your posting rate, so you have to do >fewer posts and reposts to get some information out)! > >Ken Manheimer klm@cnri.reston.va.us > I'm sorry to everyone for getting carried away about the Portable Enhancements, but it was getting to my head that my mailebox was full of their online catalogs, maybe Cc:ed to thinkpad@cs.utk.edu. Again, I hope that everyone else can except my apoligies for this, and I don't mean to post so much to the list, but I like to answer each message most of the time (since I now have the time), and I enjoy teaching others as well. Thank you for your time. Regards, Paul Khoury pkhoury@earthlink.net