RE: Baiting and and being made to look like a fool.

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Original poster: "Loudner, Godfrey by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <gloudner-at-SINTE.EDU>

Hi All

The only shortcoming I have noticed is that some people who really need
advice never get a single reply. If I feel that I have some helpful advice
in such a situation, I reply. But most of the time, I am not sure or just
don't know. I certainly would not want to cause someone to lose their life
or smoke $300 worth of transformers with bad advice. Personally the best
feature of the list is that it has vastly improved my understanding of tesla
coils from the point of view of real world experience. 

Godfrey Loudner

 

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent:	Wednesday, May 30, 2001 8:37 PM
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> Subject:	Baiting and and being made to look like a fool.
> 
> Original poster: "Garry Freemyer by way of Terry Fritz
> <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <garry-at-ndfc-dot-com>
> 
> About three times I have noticed the following behavior on the list. A
> number of people relate a negative experience they  have had with product
> X
> or company X of whatever and nobody replies to them. I go and I relate my
> own bad experience with the exact same company or brand and I get a
> truckloads of replies that tell me basically that I am all wrong and at
> the
> same time NOBODY comes foreward and supports my observation, rather I am
> made to look like some ass that doesn't know what they are talking about.
> The Jefferson I opened up, had no insulation between the windings and the
> case or core. I heard one person say he swears he will never depot another
> Jefferson as long as they live. I read a number of posts here on this
> board
> with a similar tone and opinion about Jeffersons. Now that I am getting
> emailed to death, where are all these folks now? Hiding in the woodwork?
> 
> Maybe it's because people really find my posts interesting and read them
> but
> after about 10 emails, I begin to feel that I am the main dish in a
> barbecque. I am sorry I said anything. Others have related similar
> experiences to me.
> 
> If I were new to this list, I would think this is some prank that the
> group
> here likes to engage in by baiting someone to see if they bite and then
> swatting them down just for fun, but I have gotten to know a lot of you,
> and
> I so I don't think that this is the case. I don't think this is deliberate
> but this has happened several times and whatever the reason this keeps
> happening, I find it most unpleasant and embarrassing. Maybe it wouldn't
> be
> so bad if I weren't the one that seems to be getting singled out on this.
> 
> I would mention these incidents, I remember the first was about
> www.sciencefirst-dot-com the second, I cannot remember what that was about,
> and
> this last fiasco was regarding Jefferson NST.
> 
> This is about the third time this has happened to me. I don't understand
> this. Maybe someone can explain it to me.
> 
> Terry, please post this. It may not have all that much to do with Tesla
> coiling but it sure does bring out something to do with how we treat
> each-other inavertantly.
> 
> 
>