From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: Re: ACL 6.0 Trial Edition ships with non ANSI reader behavior. Date: 2000/11/12 Message-ID: <3183048663153512@naggum.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 692808541 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <3182371042747250@naggum.net> <3A04CA75.96A92BE8@fisec.com> <7n1k0t0re21u0udcuci0vauvdo4hptqqrq@4ax.com> <3182904933425343@naggum.net> <3182956634432949@naggum.net> mail-copies-to: never Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@eunet.no X-Trace: oslo-nntp.eunet.no 974060505 6024 195.0.192.66 (12 Nov 2000 20:21:45 GMT) Organization: Naggum Software; vox: +47 800 35477; gsm: +47 93 256 360; fax: +47 93 270 868; http://naggum.no; http://naggum.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.0803 (Gnus v5.8.3) Emacs/20.7 Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 Nov 2000 20:21:45 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp * David Bakhash | And where did I ever say -- or even _imply_ -- that anyone wanted to | do business with me? This is a misguided assumption. I'm looking at | this in the following way, and I hope that this helps... You missed the point. Why should anyone _care_ who you want to do business with if they don't consider the reverse point, that somebody has to do business with you, too, for business to be transacted? If you make a point about your willingness to do business with someone, it behooves you to say something about your _ability_ to do same. I fail to see your "cut-throat" example as relevant, too, because I have no idea what you mean by "cut-throat" practices. You aren't a customer of theirs and have made a point out of that, so I can't quite see how you feel you didn't have a choice. It is not as if people do not have choices in general, either.