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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