--=======22634BDE======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-65AC1E56; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Dear Sneezy KAT and Shelley, I don't think what Shelley indicated in her memo is anything close to slander, but perhaps her assessment warrants a little illustrative detail. First, most of the discussion lists I belong to have strict guidelines regarding solicitation of services or products through their lists. It is acceptable on most lists to recommend a product or service to help solve a specific research question. It is NOT generally acceptable to make a blanket solicitation of one's services. It is even LESS acceptable to blanket dozens of listservs at once with an announcement of one's services. As the listserv coordinator (or whatever she wants to call herself), Shelley has the right, and indeed the responsibility, to regulate such activity. Second, anyone holding themselves out to sell products or services to the public should be fully willing to divulge his/her/its identity and qualifications so his/her/its "standing in the genealogical circles," etc., can be apprised out in the open. Sneezy KAT has not provided his/her identity, and a reverse lookup in Switchboard and Anywho of the phone number he/she just provided produces no results. I HAVE developed for-hire relationships with researchers online over the past several years--after I came to know their background, after I have observed them giving quality advice for free to others online--in other words, after they have EARNED my business. Maybe Sneezy KAT is a competent and honest researcher, or maybe he/she isn't--unfortunately, since we know absolutely nothing about who he/she is, and since he/she has not made at least the first attempts to earn our business in a courteous manner through these first two e-mail communications to us, we have no way of knowing, and in the interim, I find no value in her blanket solicitation of this list. At 12:16 PM 6/9/02, Sneezy KAT wrote: >--WebTV-Mail-5554-3716 >Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit >Questionable Tactics!?????? >What PROOF do you have that I am a dishonest, unreliable person? >Do YOU know me personally? >Do YOU know my standing in the Genealogical Circles? >Do YOU know my HEART, my HONESTY, my INTEGRITY? >Who do YOU think you are to say I have QUESTIONABLE TACTICS???????? >If ANYONE wants to speak to me personally, call me at (715) 925-2232 & >ask for KAT. >I have NOTHING to hide nor am I ashamed of the way I live my life. >KAT >--WebTV-Mail-5554-3716 >Content-Disposition: Inline >Content-Type: Message/RFC822 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit >Received: from smtpin-2210.public.lawson.webtv.net (209.240.213.140) by > storefull-2397.public.lawson.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Sun, 9 Jun > 2002 04:26:45 -0700 (PDT) >Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123]) by > smtpin-2210.public.lawson.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP > id DF47DFE40; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 04:26:44 -0700 (PDT) >Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id > g59BM5q08856; Sun, 9 Jun 2002 05:22:05 -0600 >Resent-Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 05:22:05 -0600 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Sun Jun 9 05:22:02 2002 >From: [email protected] >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 07:22:02 EDT >Old-To: [email protected] >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >X-Mailer: AOL 7.0 for Windows US sub 10509 >Subject: [WIMARATH-L] Message from listowner >Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/2040 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: [email protected] >There has been a letter posted on some of the Wisconsin mailing lists from a >person calling herself [email protected] She apparently does or wants >to do, research. The subject line is RESEARCH. This is someone with >questionable tactics - please don't respond! >Shelley >--WebTV-Mail-5554-3716-- Don Litzer Head of Adult Services McMillan Memorial Library 490 E. Grand Avenue Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494 (715) 423-1040 "Happiness = Reality - Expectations" --=======22634BDE=======--