[DogParkList] Fwd: Another happy customer

Thu Aug 25 20:54:24 EDT 2005

Don,

Wasting your time on Bozos is usually futile. This guy seems fairly  
clueless. Don't lose any sleep over it.

Ken
N7KD

On Aug 24, 2005, at 8:54 PM, Don Agro wrote:

> Sounds like Randy is off his meds :)
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>
>> From: Randy NV0U <randy.nv0u at gmail.com>
>> Date: August 24, 2005 10:32:49 PM EDT (CA)
>> To: Don Agro <dagro at dogparksoftware.com>
>> Subject: Re: Another happy customer
>>
>> On Aug 24, 2005, at 1:09 AM, Don Agro wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Randy,
>>>
>>> You never emailed me even once to complain but instead slagged  
>>> off the program in public -
>>>
>>> <http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/2878>
>>>
>
>
>> No I did not. I gave your program a review. Just like when I  
>> review anything else out there. I did not write to George Lucas  
>> when I complained about Jar Jar Binks in Episode I and I am not  
>> going to write anyone else when I review something they produce,  
>> create, make, build, whatever. Same goes with Kenwood, Yaesu,  
>> Icom, you, or anyone else in the ham radio game.
>>
>> Reviews I have done in the past that I can find off the top of my  
>> head:
>> http://randyrathbun.org/index.php?s=review
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/AYMYSI7ZL1XGS/ 
>> ref=cm_pdp_content_reviews/002-0109946-8809600
>>
>>
>>
>>> If you had bothered to email me I could have told you that the  
>>> date format is up to you and how you set it in your system  
>>> preferences - and - VK0SJ can be logged as Macquarie Island like  
>>> this "VK0SJ-M". The "-M" is there in BIG RED LETTERS and is  
>>> stripped off b fore being sent to ADIF. Ambiguous calls like this  
>>> are dealt with at length in the manual.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Can you point me to that spot in the manual? Clicking MacLogger DX  
>> | Online Manual:
>> http://www.dogparksoftware.com/MacLoggerDX/Manual/Pages/ 
>> logpanel.html - Nothing there in big red letters.
>> http://www.dogparksoftware.com/MacLoggerDX/MacLoggerDX_Manual.html  
>> - Nothing here about ambiguous calls or big red letters.
>> http://www.dogparksoftware.com/MacLoggerDX/Manual/Pages/faq.html -  
>> Nope. Still nothing.
>>
>> I figured this part out after about 2 hours of digging through the  
>> data files and finally noticed the VK0-M entry. After trying to  
>> enter VK0SJ/M, VK0SM (is the - a wild card I wondered? Since there  
>> is nothing in the manual per the above pages I was trying  
>> everything) I finally tried VK0SJ-M and it took.
>>
>> Like I said in my review - I don't like having a program change my  
>> data after I hack it. That is my only beef with the way you handle  
>> that function.
>>
>> As for the date - where is that in the manual?
>>
>>
>>
>>> If you find these problems "REALLY annoying" as you said in your  
>>> review - why didn't you spend the 10 seconds to send me an email  
>>> instead of whining about it on eHam ?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> As I said, I don't contact folks about their products before I do  
>> a review. I use a product for a long time before I ever give it a  
>> review. Hell, I even ended up purchasing your program so that I  
>> could finish entering my old log books so I could give the program  
>> a review. In other words, I go way out of my way to beat the hell  
>> out of the thing and try to get around the problems. In the two  
>> annoying things I posted on eHam, I could not get around those  
>> problems as they are not documented in the manual, as I show above.
>>
>>
>>
>>> If the flaws in MacLoggerDX are so egregious and so painfully  
>>> obvious then why don't you write something better than MacLoggerDX
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Already have started. Started Monday night as a matter of fact. As  
>> soon as I get some more UI stuff done I will be posting it on  
>> SourceForge. However, I must decline any future offer from you to  
>> donate to the source. You have a really thin skin it seems and I  
>> am not going to piss off my users like your message has pissed me  
>> off.
>>
>>
>>
>>> or get involved and share your superior design expertise with the  
>>> developer and the other users instead of just whining away on  
>>> eHam where the only effect will be to hasten the demise of the  
>>> product in a field where there are very few people willing to  
>>> devote their time and energy.
>>>
>>
>> This sounds like sour grapes to me, Don. Therefore, I am going to  
>> let that comment slide.
>>
>> If you are that unhappy with my review, then you are more than  
>> welcome to refund my $99 and I will be more than happy to quit  
>> using your software.
>>
>> However I don't think you want to do that and at this point in  
>> time I don't want you to. If you read the entire review I said  
>> your program was pretty damn good even though parts of it really  
>> annoyed me. That still stands.
>>
>> Randy Rathbun NV0U
>> As Yet Unnamed SourceForge Project
>>
>
> 73 Don Agro VE3VRW
>
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