Here's a quote from the email to which I referred in my last email:
"By your own admission, you control membership based at least partly on your assumptions of how closely a person is connected with people you may not like, as well as based on your own opinion of what constitutes good or bad practice outside of the forum environment.
Now that you've very clearly and personally demostrated that you are NOT for unbiased and unregulated expression of opinion on your forum (within the confines of general civility, as mentioned before), I agree with you that I don't belong there."
In plain English, here's what that means: since you control the board and base membership (as well as post content) on your own narrow (IMO) standards, I'm no longer interested in joining. IF it were an unbiased forum, I'd still be interested. You've proven beyond any doubt that it isn't, and as long as you control it, it most likely never will be.
David T. Bupp
DTB Radio
www.dtbradio.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Radio Active
To: DTB Radio
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 11:36 AM
Subject: RE: Private Message from Bozo
Uninterested persons don't email us about membership.
RA
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From:
dtbradio@pa.net
To:
radioactive626@msn.com
Subject: Re: Private Message from Bozo
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:33:56 -0400
I have to ask this. How do you manage to come up with the idea that I still have a strong interest in joining, unless you didn't bother to read all of my last email? As for you making the decision as to whether I join or not, I gathered that from your emails.
David T. Bupp
DTB Radio
www.dtbradio.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Radio Active
To: DTB Radio
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 8:02 PM
Subject: RE: Private Message from Bozo
Still sounds like you have a strong interest in joining.
If your interested in joining our site, you'll need to call me.
I'm the one making the decision if you are to able to join or not.
We often dont apprecaite being called communists however.
RA
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From:
dtbradio@pa.net
To:
radioactive626@msn.com
Subject: Re: Private Message from Bozo
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:47:46 -0400
Yes, I have been doing that. As I said, I have had dozens of requests to post there. Until your last email, however, I wasn't totally convinced that you were against the complete and total freedom of stating one's opinion in any way they wish (short of profanity, illegal activity, slander/libel, etc), regarldess of whether you agree with it or not. Your last email has convinced me that, since you run this forum, it will never be an unbiased and open forum. By your own admission, you control membership based at least partly on your assumptions of how closely a person is connected with people you may not like, as well as based on your own opinion of what constitutes good or bad practive outside of the forum environment.
Now that you've very clearly and personally demostrated that you are NOT for unbiased and unregulated expression of opinion on your forum (within the confines of general civility, as mentioned before), I agree with you that I don't belong there. Those who have requested me to post there will simply have to browse forums that do NOT block members and edit posts based on the standards you use.
By the way, I wholeheartedly agree with you that differences of opinion "make the world go around". However, your statement (and I quote here) "But you have been well known for slamming shops such as myself and spreading false statements...." begs explanation and examples. As far as I know I have never been guilty of "spreading false statements", and I would welcome your showing me links to any posts or websites on which you've based that accusation (links from my website to other sites which express opinions, such as the blacklist you hate, don't count). I have, however, absolutely been guilty of strongly expressing opinions against shops that I think, based on my electronics education and experience (as well as nearly 100 years of proven AM radio theory), are doing work that is incorrect from a technical standpoint. If you refer to that kind of expression as slamming, then yes, I'm guilty of "slamming".
Ok, gotta close, I was just made aware of someone selling bootleg copies of my copywrited CB-Computer Interface software on Ebay UK. Gotta go take care of that.
David T. Bupp
DTB Radio
www.dtbradio.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Radio Active
To: DTB Radio
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 11:01 AM
Subject: RE: Private Message from Bozo
Sorry you feel that way-
Confusing why if you felt that way you've tried joining so many times
under different names.
Thank you for your interest if it changes, I'm more then happy to hear you out.
RA
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From:
dtbradio@pa.net
To:
radioactive626@msn.com
Subject: Re: Private Message from Bozo
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:48:36 -0400
No thanks, too much like communist china during the height of Mao's rule.
David T. Bupp
DTB Radio
www.dtbradio.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Radio Active
To: DTB Radio
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 10:35 AM
Subject: RE: Private Message from Bozo
if you'd like on the forum, you'll need to call me.
RA