Re: Don't buy Martin!

On Wed, 14 May 2008 08:21:45 +0100, <nooooooo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On 14 May 2008 23:16:50 +1200, "Smoking Causes Lung Cancer (SCLC)"  
> <SCLC@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 22:36:07 -0500, Christopher Jahn wrote:
>>
>>> The little whining jerk isn't using a pen name to protect his
identity.
>>> He's not a whistle blower afraid of retribution. He's not making some
>>> political stand that could have professional repercussions. He's a  
>>> lying
>>> little jackass who has a grudge.
>>
>> That much was obvious,
>
> Yet you have all jumped to the assumption that it's for no
> valid reason.
>

WEll you haven't yet posted what your issue was?

>> and his unsubstantiated rant should be treated
>> with the sort of disregard as any rant like that should.
>>
>>
>> Meanwhile, I still consider that the use of a nome de plume on Usenet
is
>> perfectly valid - just as not posting using your real email address is
>> just as valid in order to avoid viruses or other malicious stuff that
>> trolls around.
>>
>> BTW, I have been reading this NG for some time now, and have found the
>> various points of view and suggestions offered to be very interesting.
>>
>> The post that started this thread was quite clearly bogus.
>
> It was intended as a warning. Now that I see the reaction, if I ever
> want to warn about a lame company it would probably be best to
> say they are fantastic, so people like yourselves will jump to the
> conclusion that they must be lame. From the "logic" of this group
> and yourself included I should jump to the conclusion that you
> disbelieve smoking causes cancer...etc...


Nope, we just have a post from you that says Martin are crap without  
telling us what it was you (or according to your 1st post, someone you  
knew) had as an issue. Now quite a few of us will have happily pointed out
 
that Strand won't answer the phone, return your tech sup****t calls & avoid
 
you at trade shows when asking for ,say, the pinout of their AV interface.