Will 1 pound do?

Yesterday and out of the blue I received a lengthy PM from James Bailey in response to my thread "Observations, conclusions etc" and he claimed that I was free to post his PM on the forum.

I have heard many good things about him and I replied back to him in detail yet I haven't posted his PM on the forum. Call me cynical but I felt that I was being used to publish a message on behalf of PN when they had agreed not to post here. Why would I receive such a detailed response if this was not the case and also because the PM was rather too structured for my liking? I might be doing a discredit to James here but, like I said, I am cynical and I hate being used.

I also had a PM from Ian Wild answering some queries I raised about interleaving and LLU. No indication one way or the other about publishing it, but I also felt that maybe I was being used as a channel so I decided not to bring it up in the forum here.

Especially as, like you I believe (? not sure), I don't even have Plusnet as my ISP (though I do have an email account with Metronet).

Edited by billford (Sun 27-Aug-06 00:38:31)

Hi rsharma, i would say thats gotta be your call.

Everything i was told i used discretion and reported most of it. I am sure i was not used to say things as i could have let the cat out of the bag over quite a few things before they were officially announced :-)

Do what you feel is right.

Yup, I am no longer with PN and got out just in time in Feb 06.

That's about the same time I quit MetroNet

The PM didn't include any future announcements but rather a response and defense to some criticisms and observations. I am sure he is a stand-up type of guy but to me it "seemed" a little too desperate and requesting it to be published, because I was told twice that I could publish it if I wanted to even though I never asked permission to do so. I could be very wrong. We'll see.

>It would appear that the PUG site is been used for major announcements to generate useful discussion.<

Yes and that's the very reason It should not be opened to the attack, attack mob.

Are your posts constructive in that forum? Do they not criticise PN in the same way that (ex)customers do here? For a person who doesn't much like this forum you seem to post on a frequent basis here.

Hi George, if a guest cant post how can he attack?