Re: Beware of Chicken little

  • From: "Gene" <guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 08:24:44 -0400

And also try to remember that each computer is different and no two will 
always react the same way in the same situation. If you and three other 
people have the same basic configuration and they all have a particular 
problem it isn't set in stone that you will to.


Thanks; Gene

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene" <guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: Beware of Chicken little


> Amen.
>
>
>
> Thanks; Gene
>
> On MSN and Yahoo - guystevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Karl Smith" <karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:17 AM
> Subject: Beware of Chicken little
>
>
>> Hello Folks,
>>
>> Recently, as you know, there has been far to much traffic on this list
>> about
>> the death of Freedom Scientific, and/or its lack of service, and/or care
>> about its customers, and/or its lack of support for one or another piece
>> of
>> hardware.  First of all let me say that I think FS has some good things
>> and
>> bad things about it.  Sometimes it comes through with flying colors on an
>> issue and sometimes it falls short.  This is just the way things happen 
>> in
>> the world.  I also do not mean to dispute that some people have had bad
>> experiences with FS or at least they perceive that they have which is the
>> same thing in the end.
>>
>> Bruce commented earlier that there are some700 members on this list.
>> During
>> this recent flurry of the sky is falling messages I have noticed that, as
>> usual, most of the more than 100 messages I have seen have come from
>> perhaps
>> ten people.  I have seen at times a run of messages from person a then
>> person b and then person a again.  This sometimes makes things appear to
>> be
>> much worse than they are.  About a month ago there was a run of messages
>> about all the problems people were having with version 6.1 and someone
>> wrote
>> that eighty percent of the messages they had seen were about the problems
>> with 6.1 and that because of this they weren't going to load it.  I just
>> want to remind people that if you see a hundred messages and eighty of
>> them
>> deal with one problem be sure that you pay attention to how many of the
>> eighty are from the same few people.  I'm not trying to discount or deny
>> that problems can and do exist with JAWS and FS as I know they do.  I
>> simply
>> want to warn you not to be as Chicken Little and think the sky is falling
>> every time someone says that it is.  End of sermon.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>> ____________________
>>
>> Karl Smith
>> Access Technology Specialist
>> Axis
>> 4304 South El Camino St.
>> Taylorsville, Utah 84119
>>
>> Phone:  866-824-7885
>> Fax:    866-824-7885
>> E-mail: karl@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> No one will ever go broke underestimating the intelligence of the human
>> race.
>>
>>   - H. L. Menkin
>>
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