Guest guest Posted April 15, 2002 Report Share Posted April 15, 2002 Dear JoAnn, could you please email me privateley as all my posts to you are getting returned. Regards, Dorothy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 Dear Group, I am sorry if I come across as harsh, but I receive messages every week and some times daily of people telling me what not to post, what to post, how to post etc. After awhile it gets to be quite tiresome. I liken it to a situation where you start something for a group say eating in common. Initialy most contribute something, even if some more than others, to the meal and all benfit. Most enjoy the meal and see the benefit. Some although they don't want to help in the preparation or much of the work, think they somehow get to direct the efforts of the others in the preparation of the meal or what is being served and how. They start ordering people to cook to please them. They do a small part, or nothing of the work involved, but want to automatically be able to take over the directing part. How they come to this conclusion, is beyond me, but it is a constant with people. If you do not like the meal that someone else prepares, prepare your own meal. Or cook something to bring to the meal in the way that you like it and hopefully others will too. But stop telling others what to cook, how to cook it, serve it, etc. especially if you do not do much or any of the work involved. regards, Frank , Frank <califpacific> wrote: > Hello Carol, > > I have some thoughts on the subject as well. Please do not take all of this personally but this is a recuring problem, so I take this opportunity to address this issue generally as well. > > We get lots of new comers to this forum and we welcome them usually. A certain percentage take it upon themselves and tell us how we should change this forum and what we should do differently. It always is based upon what they want personally so as to please them. So we are all suppossed to change for their benefit. Sometimes they say this with very sweet words all the way to the other extreme of being rude. > > However, they come with the idea that we should change what we do to suit them personally. I personally have removed over two hundred people from here for that issue and commercial postings of which they think that they are exempt from the rules, etc.. > > No, not everyone is happy with this forum nor do we pretent to try and please everyone. > We have been told to make the articles shorter. longer, more concetrated, rewritten in a format that they wished, cover areas outside of what we have designated, and other things ad infintum. > > This forum was started and continues to be for the benefit of a like minded minority. I started it as such and since it is noncommercial that is still my premise. I am more concerned about the quality of the information presented here than I am about how many members that we have. > > I have always held to the idea that maybe someone can do it better and they certainly have the right to do it their way, just nor here. But they can start their own group and do it any way that they like. > > The bottom line is that we are not here to please you or any other member. We are here for ourselves and that means that this group is ran to what we want. > > As for the information, I believe that we give the most complete and high level information available on the net anywhere. And we do it for free. I am sure that are information is much better and much more abundant than any of the pay for newsletters on alternative health that are around that I have read. > > Not all posts will please everyone, as are subject matter is of a wide interest, so people usually have to pick and choose. If a person has a deep interest in a certain subject then they usually want the indepth article. And to those who have a passing interest then maybe a quick short read will suffice. > > Instead of people being grateful for the work and information that people do put into this group, we get this.... But, " I want it to be done differently to please me " issue over and over again. > > Instead of seeing this list as a great place to get great information at the expense of someone doing it for them for no recompence, they are too egocentric to understand that not everyone is put here just to please them. > > As I said before, this message is not aimed at you personally, I am just a little fed up with ungrateful people who don't recognize how lucky they are to be receiving information of this quality and for nothing and then have the audacity to complain that it isn't exactly the way that they want it personally. > > Try going to some of the paid newsletters which aren't half as good and see how far you get with telling them to change it for you. > > I have thought seriously to change this to a web based paid newsletter just because of this recurring problem with ungrateful people. Sometimes it doesn't seem worthwhile to me to put in the time and effort and to what end. > > What I do not like in this group is for people to make definative statements about an issue of alternative health and back it up with basically nothing. No references, no logic, no critical thinking just I say so. That might be great if you are an acknowledged expert and we know of your work, but almost all of us fall outside of that category. But still many come to this list and say things as if they are an expert and expect us to accept things such as their statements at face value. This list was started to get away from all of the so called self styled experts of which most of the other lists are full of and in my opinion also full of usually low quality or near wothless information. > > regards, > > Frank > > > > willowlee53@a... wrote: > Hi JoAnn... I hope you don't mind me making some constructive criticism ( I > hope u take in a good tone ; ) > > I appreciate reading your posts and find them very interesting, but wondered > if you could maybe put them in a different format? I find... with the LINES of > " one sentence " ..and big gaps between them, I quickly loose interest about 1/4 > way down. (and can see from the " scrolling " bar on the right, that there is a > LONG way to go before finish.)...more then not, i end up closing the e-mail > without finishing it. > I hope this doesen't offend you... I DO NOT mean any harm by it! I would > just like to be able to read the info you post to this list, without experiancing > the " wading feeling " . > Maybe this doesen't bother others..and it is just ME, but I felt the need to > ask/express concern about this. > > Thanks for hearing me out. > Carol > (the little mad nutritional scientist) > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 , " califpacific " <califpacific> wrote: > Dear Group, > > I am sorry if I come across as harsh, but I receive messages every > week and some times daily of people telling me what not to post, what to post, how to post etc. > After awhile it gets to be quite tiresome. I just wanted to say that I REALLY appreciate all of the time and effort you people put into making this site such a great place to visit. I have learned so much here and am applying it to mine and my families lives. I also enjoy passing the information onto others to help them. I REALLY appreciate the in-depth articles that you take the time to research and post for us. Keep up the great work here. Also, I love to send people to the alternative message boards for some great education. Lynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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