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From: jpm@bnl44.arpa (John McNamee)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Mystic Pascal RIPOFF
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Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 19:34:51 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 19:34:51 1985
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I said...
>>than Jim Tyson of JRT Pascal fame. Would you buy something from the man who
>>pulled off the JRT scam? I sure as hell wouldn't, and I don't think many

And Peter da Silva replied...
>This is the first I heard that JRT was a scam. I had heard that it was badly
>non-standard and buggy, but what do you want for $30? Especially back then.
>It might be less impressive than advertised, but what isn't? That certainly
>doesn't make it a scam.
>
>But while I'm on the subject of words...
>
>Had you ever considered that your statement might be described as libel?

What do you call it when a company takes your money and doesn't deliver the
product? I call it a scam. JRT took orders, cashed checks, and charged
credit cards and then only delivered to a very small number of buyers. A
large number of people were left with a chased check and no product when
JRT went bankrupt.

The fact that Mystic Pascal is VAPORWARE just drives home the point that
it would be very unwise to send money to these people and expect to get
anything in return.


Now, as to my choice of words... I may very well be open to a libel suit.
But then so will all the hundreds of people on CompuServe who declared JRT
a ripoff. Jim Tyson has a bad name in the microcomputer industry. If he wants
to redeem himself he should find a better way then trying to sell vaporware.
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John P. McNamee		decvax!philabs!sbcs!bnl44!jpm		jpm@BNL44.ARPA