To JoAnn guest

[Guest guest]

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 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)

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Carol - there might be something about your settings that is causing the posts

to come that way. Her posts don't appear on my e-mail program (outlook express)

with gaps between the sentences. They come as regular articles. Joy