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To: Hoatzin who wrote (271)12/20/1999 1:10:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 644
 
It's not malice - it's corporate resolution combined with a decision that accountability to individual users isn't required. Like the tobacco cos - they had an agenda which was in the corporate interest - and it took fifty years of tireless hard work by opposed groups to get them to cop to the agenda. In the meantime, it was just not required to tell the real story.

I don't think GNET is malicious, any more than Team Bud is malicious when they take a race machine and paint BUD front, top, sides and back all over it.

But in the case of SI -
1) I see no point in munching the old format. Its absence of the Marketer's Mentality is one if the things that made SI such a nice place. And I do believe that is why so many rallied to the old format - it was so uncommercial in look and feel.
2) The new format is dominated by marketing (specifically Branding) concerns. I am a free individual. I have no agenda other than good hair hygiene. But Bryan speaks for GNET, and he needs to represent his corporate bosses. They are probably telling him what's what. But if Bryan assumes the cloak of User Liaison, I will hold him to a ceratin standard of forthrightness with Me, User. No doubletalk. No bandying about the meaning of "is" or "sexual intercourse". Just plain, engineer-grade talk.

Bryan, implying that I was calling you a liar is a low blow. As if you are the injured party here. I must admire the gamesmanship, but it is yet another way you erode my trust. Fwiw.
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