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RE: repeater news



 >> Kids!  Kids! Aren’t we taking this a bit too personally ????? <<
 
no, dammit.
 
we PAID for this thing. 
 
it's like it's become the default corporate position to treat the early adopter like a beta tester, & to treat the rest of the customer base as some sort of necessary evil. what did you all pay for your repeaters? a significant chunk of the month's paycheck, maybe more.
 
last night when I got their email, I was tripping slightly on exhaustion, & to receive any correspondence at all after all this time seemed like my fairy godmother had just shown up to fix an otherwise bad day.
but now in the cold light of another nasty day at the coal-face, I'm wondering why the guys (new owners? original electrix crew? whoever they are) didn't show up HERE just once in a while to 
 
1) ask us about bugs
2) get up a wishlist
3) let us know things were happening
4) maybe offer a group discount on this "upgrade"
5) at least tell us wtf the upgrade does
6) just lurk & research.
 
it's funny- while I was trying to settle down again last night, & knowing that I couldn't get anything useful off their website until they finish updating it, I read a few posts from mid-2001 on the subject of the repeater.
 
I recommend this- there is some real perspicacity amongst the folks on this list, & some of the predictions for the future of the 'peater (remember, it hadn't even come out then) were bang on.
 
$129 seems a bit steep for (probably) a 128MB cfc card..... why can't it be a free download? is this so the new owners can claw back some of what they spent on whatever's left of electrix? do they think, because we use clever toys, that we're all made of money?
 
cock to it, I say, unless there's some actual real magic in this new version.
 
duncan.