From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fbb10,2275d0482ee4689c X-Google-Attributes: gidfbb10,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2275d0482ee4689c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,2275d0482ee4689c X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,2275d0482ee4689c X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: Alan Brain Subject: Re: Please do not patronize net-abusers at Alsys/Thompson software Date: 1996/05/24 Message-ID: <4o3r69$i8t@fred.netinfo.com.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 156479994 references: content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: At Home mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.object,comp.lang.smalltalk,alt.fan.dimitri-vulis x-mailer: Mozilla 1.2N (Windows; I; 16bit) Date: 1996-05-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: First, sorry for the cross-posting to smalltalk etc. but I really can't let this one go by. dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis) wrote: >A few days ago I received a harrassing e-mail spam from Keith Thompson, >. I asked postmaster@alsys.com to tell Thompson not to >send any more e-mail to anyone in the dm.com domain. > I received no response from the postmaster, Funny, that. Can't imagine why not. > but we've received two more harrassing e-mails from >Thompson, addressed to various postmasters. NWRT >Keith Thompson is a net-abuser. Please don't buy anything from his company >(Alsys/Thompson Software). I used their Alsys Ada some years ago and it >really sucked big time. Now this creep is harrassing me by e-mail. Disagree in every respect. I've personally used Alsys Ada in its previous incarnations for nearly 10 years, and it's always been one of the very best. HCI could be greatly improved in the early versions, but the latest $99 special does that. The last time I used the product was to make an AI system in Australia, which was then ported to Dec-Ada and the Einterstein compiler for the 690x0 without a single change. This is a Production Quality compiler, capable of producing components in multi-million-SLOC systems. Had it not been for the factually-challenged and commercially damaging post you've put at the end, I would have just ignored the whole thing. But there may well be people out there who would take your - ah - used food? - at face value. In which case they'd miss what in my experience is the cheapest production-quality compiler around for Ada-83. GNAT is the best for learning Ada OTOH. OK, if this was a Troll, I've bitten. 'Nuff said.