Re: Personal attacks on public lists are in poor taste.

From: KEVIN D. ENGLAND (kengland@mail.jhmi.edu)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 15:53:33 MET DST

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    Yea gang, my .02 .... One cent at a time.

    .01 The personal attack was a little too much
    .02 Whoo Hoo!!! We're back to stomping mud holes in his joint ...

    kev ;-)

    On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Gen Kanai wrote:

    > lb,
    >
    > I want to state that I think your personal attacks at Dirk or his company
    > in this public forum are in poor taste and are inappropriate for the
    > Acid-Jazz mailing list.
    >
    > If contributing positively to the list is one measure of value on the net,
    > Dirk's contributed a lot more to this list than you have. Go back to the
    > archives and you'll see who's been talking up the good stuff and _not_just_
    > to sell records. Dirk talks about stuff that he sells _as_well_as_ stuff
    > that he doesn't sell. Not only that, Dirk adds commentary about artists
    > and labels that we wouldn't have on this list otherwise (his perspective
    > being a relatively unique one running the business that he does.)
    >
    > If you've tried buying dance music online, you'll quickly realize that
    > people like Dirk who run an honest business focused on the music that we
    > discuss on this list are RARE. Ask around on the list and you'll find MANY
    > happy customers of Groove Distribution. I, for one, am happy to have Dirk
    > on this list and hope that this kind of personal attack won't turn him away
    > from contributing to this list as he has done in the past.
    >
    > Anyone who knows anything about music retail/distribution knows that Dirk
    > is in it for the LOVE of the music NOT to make big cash moneybags, because
    > no one who runs an operation like Dirk's (focused on non-pop,
    > non-mainstream music) is making the really big cash. (No offense
    > intended.) He'd be an A&R exec at a big label if he wanted the safe job
    > with the money.
    >
    > Attacking people personally in a forum like this mailing list is
    > inappropriate and in poor netiquette. Take it offline if you have a
    > personal issue with Dirk.
    >
    > Gen
    >
    > p.s. Am I the only one who thought this attack was inappropriate?
    >
    >
    >
    > At 10:28 PM 4/26/00 -0400, Discreets@aol.com wrote:
    > >In a message dated 4/26/0 9:14:05 PM, Dirk van den Heuvel wrote:
    > ><<And what about the simple principle of paying for what you get? Hell, it's
    > >the least we can all do.>>
    > >
    > >In a message dated 4/26/0 10:05:23 PM, Dirk van den Heuvel wrote:
    > ><<And I now feel like I'm repeating myself so unless someone comes up with a
    > >new wrinkle on this discussion I'm gonna shut up...>>
    > >
    > >ok, new wrinkle... when was the last time you paid FULL price for something
    > >you got!? not everybody has the luxury of receiving a sweet little promo
    > >package upon their desk every morning! and fuck downloading music, what
    > >bothers me is how guiltlessly all you seem to talk about are records that
    > >your company sells!? since when did this list become the advertisement for
    > >Groove Distribution!? i mean its one thing to discuss the music you sell but
    > >its another to shamelessly solicit customers while doing so...
    >



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