Calling a spade a spade
Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2005-01-15 16:35:03 - Graham EllisThe first "business" email I received this year was a threat - "We advise you to remove the following information from your website with immediate effect or we will take legal action". I was fascinated to get such an email even on a public holiday.
I'm careful - very careful - what I post here, elsewhere on this site, and on the web as a whole. But if I consider that something's poor value, I'll say so. If I feel that something's a scam, I'll say so. If I feel that people need warning about the downside of something, I'll post that warning here, but also encourage people to discuss the upside if they wish.
In this particular event, I did modify the page concerned as one particular sentence (critically quoted from the complainant's own web site) has caused offense, and I was able to leave the gist of my story in place; two days later, he wrote and thanked me for my co-operation. And yesterday, I received an unsolicited email thanking me for my information page. I seem to have acheived the impossible and kept both sides happy.
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