Jeff Dorgay & TONEAudio Declare War on CA

[mansr]

17 minutes ago, arcman said:

Yes..you are right.....However....just because you don't lock your doors doesn't mean it's "right" for somebody to go into your home.

No, this is different. This is akin to placing all your belongings on the front lawn with a sign saying "take what you want," then getting upset with one particular person when he grabs an item.

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4 minutes ago, phototristan said:

I don't, and you don't. Why do I say this? Because just take a look at the RAW RSS feed data and you will see exactly what is in their RSS feed. Hint- it's not the full article. 

It absolutely has the full articles.

 

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7 minutes ago, church_mouse said:

I think you may be wrong because the TONEAudio rss feed I just pulled in to my InoReader account gets the same length articles as CA.

 

Did you try anything other than feedbucket before making your statement?

And here's Feedly showing a full article wherein he brags about his BMWs (plural):

[mansr]

1 minute ago, phototristan said:

You need to look at the actual RAW RSS data. Some RSS readers will essentially click on the included link in the feed to bring up the entire article. This does not mean the entire article is in the RSS feed. 

Did you miss the screenshot I posted of the raw XML text?

 

For a moment I suspected you might be Jeff, but then I realised you're not nearly angry enough.

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2 minutes ago, plissken said:

And if ToneAudio knew what they were doing (technical competence) they could fix that... 

The site runs on Wordpress. This is the setting he doesn't know about:

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1 minute ago, phototristan said:

You stated in one of your replies to Jeff that you actually prefer to just post a summary of articles. If that is the case, why did you not just edit it to be a summary?  Boom - problem solved. 

Are you working for Jeff? If so, he should request a refund.

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Just now, phototristan said:

He's not complaining about his site, he's complaining about yours, as are you too. Since you BOTH don't like how YOUR site is displaying it, why not just fix it? Again, boom - problem solved for both of you. 

You really like saying "boom," don't you?

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Just now, Allan F said:

OTOH, perhaps he could ask his lawyer to help him fix it.

Maybe he did, and the lawyer hired a forum troll.

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1 minute ago, phototristan said:

He could be totally incompetent for all I know. That's beside the point. If it's clear he does not want his stuff on my site, I'd simply remove it from my site rather than 'Nope, you left the keys in your car so it's mine now"

If I put up a billboard by the road, is it reasonable of me to then demand that you look away or close your eyes every time you pass it?

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5 minutes ago, Jud said:

Actually I have, and I *still* wouldn't have thought of it.  ?

 

I do remember one case, not in our office, involving the divorce of an overweight attorney whose suit jackets strained to stay closed against a single button in front of his belly.  When his wife got served with the papers, she went through his closet and snipped that button off of all of his suits. 

I'd say that was a suitable response.

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28 minutes ago, phototristan said:

None, other that I've read some of the articles. 

Do you seriously expect anyone to believe that?

[mansr]

9 minutes ago, Milt99 said:

Jeff D. used to post on SHF generally that a new edition of his webzine was available but also in response to reviews on his site.

I responded once to a new gear listing of device isolators, basically pucks of sorbothane with some kind of shiny metal.

The price listed was really expensive like in the thousands.

 

I posted that I thought for the price these pucks, customer were getting bent over.

No swearing, calling their mag a fake, nothing just about the picks.

 

Well, he ripped me a new one, MF'er the whole 9 yards. I was attacking his credibility and the credibility of site.

He also informed that the price on site was incorrect and that the pucks were only several hundred dollars.

This guy can put M. Lavorgna to shame

 

I tried to sincerely apologize and say that I never meant to call into question anything about his site.

Afterall, it wasn't even a review.

I think he told me shove my apology or something like that.

Sheesh.

You should have mentioned reading it on your specially made, gold plated iPad while sat in one of your BMWs.

[mansr]

7 minutes ago, Allan F said:

Nevertheless, it is still common knowledge and/or advice that when you write an email, you should assume that it will become public. 

Assume it will be seen by your boss, wife, mistress, and drug dealer.

[mansr]

3 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 It isn’t that hard to obfuscate one’s server location. We do it :~)

Cloudflare?

[mansr]

7 hours ago, phototristan said:

LOL.  I used to work with a guy who bragged that he read that book 3 times. He was a total wanker.

Seems like it rubbed off.

[mansr]

Just now, firedog said:

I grew up with someone who not only read the book, he went to classes that teach you how to implement the book. He's still a jerk.

I suspect that either only jerks read that book, or the book turns people into jerks.

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6 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I really hope John and Jeff contact all the sites like Feedly who charge a fee to read their RSS feeds. 

 

P.S. With zero interest in supporting the HiFi community.

Don't forget those dastardly IPSs that eagerly aid and abet in this vile theft. And charge a fee for it too.

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3 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

And there's even ads in the mix with services like Feedly.

 

That looks like someone is selling ad space in their RSS feed. Feedly does not inject ads.

[mansr]

5 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Yes, Feedly serves advertisements.

 

Oh, I didn't know that. I only look at my subscribed feeds, not the mix pages. Anyway, who cares? It's a service like any other. Got to be paid for somehow.

[mansr]

1 minute ago, John_Atkinson said:

For reprinting of an RSS feed, the answer is "it depends."

I subscribe to your RSS feed. Maybe one in ten articles seems interesting enough that I click through for the full thing. If you didn't have the RSS feed, I would probably visit your site much less frequently.

[mansr]

10 minutes ago, kumakuma said:

Looks like Angry Jeff has added the following notice to the articles coming through his RSS feed:

 

Quote

[...] If you are not reading this content in your news aggregator, [...]



CA is my news aggregator.

[mansr]

4 minutes ago, jabbr said:

Vote with your $$$$$

By making a campaign donation?

[mansr]

3 hours ago, sandyk said:

 Perhaps not all websites can  handle a high level of views without substantial upgrading ?

Reminds me of a guy some years back who had a little website hosted by his ISP, as was common back then. For whatever reason, the site became quite popular and attracted a lot of traffic. The ISP contacted the guy and offered to help him make the site less attractive so as to ease the load on their servers. He was not amused.

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13 minutes ago, arcman said:

Since the feed is down now, myself, I would remove this entire thread. A bit embarrassing to have hanging around (If I were the op) if one abides by TA's wishes anyway. 

Mostly embarrassing for Jeff.

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8 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

And, we want to provide a place to leave comments because many sites have disabled that feature or censor comments heavily.

Perhaps some see that as a problem.