Allen Holub on DDJ & C-Chest
Mitch Mlinar
mlinar at eve.usc.edu
Sun Sep 11 05:35:51 AEST 1988
In article <636 at muffin.cme-durer.ARPA> libes at cme-durer.arpa (Don Libes) writes:
>I was quite curious, myself, about this and a friend of mine called
>both Holub and the editor of DDJ. Needless to say DDJ told a
>completely opposite story than Allen. I'm not going to repeat it.
>Don't even mail me. My point is, there are two sides to every story.
>Frankly, at this point I don't believe everything that either DDJ and
>Holub say.
>
I agree. But ...
>Anyone who read Holub's last column will realize that DDJ would never
>print such a thing. Similarly, DDJ will never print their version of
>the story, because it would probably sound just as filled with enmity
>and twisted truths.
Again, I agree that no magazine would print an article like that or a
rebuttal to it, either. Their objective is to do this as low key as
possible, so as not to offend any readers and keep discussion to a minimum.
With this posting, you are actually adding FUEL to this now PUBLIC situtation
by saying "I know the OTHER side of the story. But I am not going to tell
you, so there."
The *logical* thing for you to do would have been to either: (1) post a
summary of the DDJ response or (2) never have posted to begin with.
Yes, I feel *so* much better now that I know there are two sides to every
story. That will certainly be a shock to us dumb net users; combine that
with the *actual* rebuttal would certainly give us all coronaries....
-Mitch
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