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Sorry for the lengths. Not for the faint hearted. A simple
demonstration of trench warfare and the wholesale futility of it.
I quite understand the points you make, but I would differ. What
these posts illustrate, and where they fail, in many cases, is in
their humourless arrogance, intolerance and the undeniable pleasure
that the protagonists take in kicking lumps out of each other. That's
tiresome and it was part of trend that made this group nearly
unreadable for a while. It isn't their defence of the freeware nature
of the group that's at fault, it's the tone.
You quote Bambam's excellent "not freeware" response as adequate. So
it is, if the matter stops there. It was probably a mistake on the
poster's part. When there's an insistence that it's right to
recommend payware in this freeware group, more is clearly needed.
Things are exactly now, as they were before and after these threads
were posted. Nothing changed, at all.
Perhaps, on that occasion. I can't say. That was during a period
when I ignored the group because it had become such a snake-pit due to
the lack of self-discipline of some posters.
The general trend I've noted is that the gradual incursion of payware
solutions increases until it meets resistance, ebbs for a while and
starts again. Hardly surprising, really. We're dealing with a
combination of innocent ignorance by newbies and a wish to sneak in a
free advert by others. Resistance works, for a time, and that's the
best one can hope for.
Deja Vu.. all over again?
Yep, but with a more measured response, I hope, and therefore one that
has more chance of succeeding. But yes, the insistence that the group
is for freeware has to continue, ad infinitum if necessary.
