On 4/3/06, lishisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to put the whole thing past me... Can YOU?
Well, gosh. I was trying to. I decided to leave well enough alone after what appeared to be a somewhat sincere change of heart and attempt to engage. I decided that it would be good to step back and let the discussion go. I will admit that I probably shouldn't have replied to Ron's message, or should have replied privately, because I was actually upset over something completely unrelated at the time and unable to just drop it. But then this.... vitriol. Anyway, I've had to cut out a lot of my initial reaction to this-- the last paragraph will explain why. > Stephanie, > You are the epitomy of hipocracy... You potray me to be some evil > martketeer, yet you are marketing a product that anybody with half a brain > could figure out for free. It's a "for Dummies" book. If the folks reading it wanted to figure it out by digging around the Internet, they would, and in many cases do anyway. But they also would like to have someone else dig around for it and print the information for them in a handy package. I don't hold a lot of illusions about my book, here. It's not Hemingway, for god's sake. > I sure it will make a wonderful refence three > years from now when every point in the book is moot. Computer books don't have a long shelf life. That's not really news. > While I am on the subject of your useless banter... who died and left you > boss of this group? Who asked you to determine what this group is, what it > likes and dislikes? The difference between spam and not spam... it is all > YOUR opinion you have no right to speak for a group of over 2000... [Careful, Jason. Godwin is watching....] I believe in the post to which you are replying, I even said "I do not personally have a problem with..." Actually, I think there's only one point where I didn't preface my comment by stating that it was my opinion, but since the previous remark had been stated as opinion, I figured it was obvious. By the way, I believe we both have supporters here. I'm sure you've been emailed privately with as many "hang in there''s, as I've received "go get 'em"'s, so perhaps neither of us can claim to speak for more than ourselves? > your book is probably great... and on impulse > I probably would have bought it, I certainly would veer completely in the > opposite direction... at this point I might even burn it on site. Well, books aren't sacred. Actually, I secretly hope you hold a great big book-burning party for it. I could use the press. > Oh and for the record, I emailed Steve Garfield from his vlog long before I > knew he was even a member here or who any members here were to be honest. As stated earlier: I'm sorry I even mentioned that. I did not, however, feel it necessary to drag Steve into this by name. > Thanks to those who understand, and a big fuck you to those who offend or > are offended, I am just tired of this shit and want to move on. Then move on already. > I should have vlogged this... by the way hold my beer while I go vomit, I'll > be back in a moment. Yeah, you probably should have vlogged it. That would have been interesting. Not unique, but interesting. Jason, I will make you a deal, if you've even read this far, and I'm going to ask that everyone else who's engaged you adversarially in this discussion to consider the same deal. I'm going to stick to posting about vlogweek more or less until after the 9th. And I won't reply to anything you say, and you won't reply to anything I say (erm, though if you're in vlogweek, let's just keep it civil), for a 10 day cooling off period (of course you could reply to this, cause I know you want the last word and anyway, how can you accept a truce if you don't reply?). I know I, for one, would rather cool off and come back and meet on less hostile footing in a week and a half than have to muddle through more flamewars. --Stephanie -- Stephanie Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blogs, vlogs, and audioblogs at: http://www.mortaine.com/blogs Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
