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Pastimes : Bring Back SI Bob! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Janice Shell who wrote (350)	2/8/2001 4:19:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 808

Well Hell Shell, SI Bob being booted! That causes me a wry smile. He did NOT always do a good job, arriving late at the scene, failing to figure out who was wrong and booting ME! I felt genuinely aggrieved and of course received no apology for their clumsy attempt at making things good. Ramsey Su said at the time that maybe SIBob would be the one to get the boot. In the end, it happened. Which is of course a very hollow 'victory' and not what I want. I had asked for support against the bad-guys but was ignored. I also asked for help against actual threats of physical violence but was ignored. So I'm not too worried that discussion quality will deteriorate. I quite like the idea that SI might revert to the pleasant place of early 1996, before all the drama and content and bells and whistles. Of course 10 posts at a time and moderated threads are great additions [but not the new fonts]. Yes, I know there's no going backwards. WSJ.com = <...Several other designers and content managers also were fired, said SG Cowen's Mr. Graves. InfoSpace said Monday it would lay off 250 employees, or about 21% of its work force, as it cuts back on its consumer-services divisions. At 4 p.m. Wednesday on the Nasdaq Stock Market, shares of the Bellevue, Wash.-based company rose $1.34, or 37%, to $5. "Words currently fail me, but I'll post more later," Mr. Zumbrunnen wrote on Silicon Investor's discussion boards Tuesday. "I am no longer employed by Silicon Investor."> When WSJ.com [which promotes criminal stock scams such as dehypothecation] called me a scamster, SI management warned investors about 'that guy' = me, rather than defend their SI members. As an exponent of WebNodes, you know what it's like to be categorized as a scamster. So, here we go into the 21st century, with SI management in tatters and the Internet in Taniwha-zygote form ready to grow into a monster across the world after a temporary dot.com glitch. Bring it on! Meanwhile, bye Bob! I really liked the SIBob cartoon character [which disappeared into cyberspace]. Mqurice