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>> Kids! Kids! Aren’t we taking this
a bit too personally ????? <<
no,
dammit.
we PAID for this
thing.
it's like it's become the
default corporate position to treat the early adopter like a beta tester, &
to treat the rest of the customer base as some sort of necessary evil. what did
you all pay for your repeaters? a significant chunk of the month's paycheck,
maybe more.
last night when I got
their email, I was tripping slightly on exhaustion, & to receive any
correspondence at all after all this time seemed like my fairy godmother had
just shown up to fix an otherwise bad day.
but now in the cold light
of another nasty day at the coal-face, I'm wondering why the guys (new owners?
original electrix crew? whoever they are) didn't show up HERE just once in a
while to
1) ask us about
bugs
2) get up a
wishlist
3) let us know things were
happening
4) maybe offer a
group discount on this "upgrade"
5) at least tell us wtf
the upgrade does
6) just lurk &
research.
it's funny- while I was
trying to settle down again last night, & knowing that I couldn't get
anything useful off their website until they finish updating it, I read a few
posts from mid-2001 on the subject of the repeater.
I recommend this- there is
some real perspicacity amongst the folks on this list, & some of the
predictions for the future of the 'peater (remember, it hadn't even come
out then) were bang on.
$129 seems a bit steep for
(probably) a 128MB cfc card..... why can't it be a free download? is this so the
new owners can claw back some of what they spent on whatever's left of
electrix? do they think, because we use clever toys, that we're all made of
money?
cock to it, I say, unless
there's some actual real magic in this new
version.
duncan.
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