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Old 01-03-2008, 01:26 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by Chimera1 View Post
Are you really arguing for the sake of it?

Nats is struggling to survive and may not make it, especially with the backlash developing in spite of their best efforts. Perhaps you can start an argument over that.

The program owners with an investment are naturally struggling to find justifications in keeping the software and are more inclined towards belief.... Maybe that too is something to argue about.

They have much to lose and gain in this and their defenses and arguing are expected, though maybe not entirely logical.

From the affiliate level we don't actually have much to gain or lose except to take notes as to who is alert and who is burying their heads in the sand.

So why all the argument over tiny points when the main issue is clear and incontrovertible?
At last someone comes in with common sense. It does not matter if the servers were brought down, to their knees or slowed down. What matters is NATS, as we all know, were well aware of this issue. There had been numerous warnings that email addresses were being compromised. They failed to look at it properly. Even when they had it brought to the their attention in a way they could not ignore they did not fix the problem properly, did not warn other clients and tried to stop the information getting out. A C&D is a legal letter and a threat.

So the question is why did they take so long to look into it, not fix it and try to keep it quiet?

Incompetent and don't want people to know. Or. Dishonest?

There are no other answers.

Yes I feel for the companies that went the way of NATS. But you made a bad decision and did not keep a good enough control on who you were dealing with. As Chimera says you can keep burying your head in the sand and stick with a company that's incompetent or dishonest.

Heaven help us if they had put up a site with a few magic join links.
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