Mr Pritt's company may have made a bad business decision and the company or elements of it are about to implode. Do I detect a .COM burst about to occur? Should we discuss business plans and ROI?

This has seemed like less than a professional discussion on his part.

Tom


>As the bard said, "Methinks the lady dos protesteth too much."
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>Christof posted a message saying he was unhappy about what had transpired ( and mentioning some details about what he perceived as having transpired). He had entered a URL in his browser and it provoked action on the part of the UML people. Who cares what the action was. Now Mr Pritt is making the very same types of accusations of which he says Christof is guilty. My problem is that I know Christof very well and he is a cool headed, intelligent, knowledgable person. I do not know Mr Pritt at all.
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>I am sorry, but entering a url in the address field of a browser is not illegal or subversive in any way as far as I am concerned. I do it all the time to avoid spelunking around a site looking for links.
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>My job is building and running a web site that sells subscriptions for 10's of thousands of dollars per year and we don't respond the way Mr Pritt's company did. We use Whois.com to find out where an IP address is comming from and if necessary we lock out the IP from accessing our site (which we can do easily becasue we built the site with that capability). The only direct repsonse we make to attempts to bypass our security is to divert to a page that tells the user that our system has identified them as bypassing our security and we don,t apprecite that and provides them with the appropriate links to get into the site legitimatley. We don't send them nasty accusatory emails, primarily because we want them to subscribe and give us money.
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>It was obvious to me that the URLs Christof was trying were attempting to get at a newer version of the software. I don't see why Mr Pritt's company didn't seize the opportunity to sell something to Christof, I mean here he was trying to get information about the next version of the product.
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>Personally, the reaction from Mr Pritt seems to be pretty much overkill. If one irate potential customer causes him to reevaluate his company's entry into a particular market, it sure seems like there is not very much committment to that market. That and the fact that I just don't believe the reason for the company's entry to the Fox market has anything to do with the altruism on which Mr Pritt claims it is based. Most companies enter a market because they believe there is money to be made there.