Subject: re: [gutvol-d] on the issue of hand-crafted versus computer-generated .html versions
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked], [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:16:05 -0400 (EDT)

jared said:
>    Well, BB, that "inefficient system" you speak of, 
>    works just fine for everybody else that I know :)

great.   glad you're happy with it.         :+)

everyone i admire strives for constant improvement,
and doesn't mind if they get constructive criticism...

is that you?

i'm not so sure.

and it was because of people just like you,
who wanted to shout me down without even
listening to what i had to say, that i asked
"why is it again that i wanted to help here?",
and came up with no convincing answer,
and thus decided i'd leave without helping.

when i'm away from you, i remember that
the reason i want to help you is because
i have an abiding love for electronic-books,
and want them to succeed out in the world,
because global 24/7 access to knowledge
just might save the humans from extinction.

and that abiding love makes me come back and
try it again.   and then i run into people like you...

>    So, you're pretty much out of luck.  

me?   i think not.   you're the ones losing out.
but hey, it's your time and energy, to waste
as you see fit.   i'm just having fun watching...

>    WE are all volunteers here working on the books, 
>    but so are the people behind the scenes like Marcello, 
>    Aaron and Mike Hart.  

it's funny how you call him "mike" hart.

>    Yes, it's difficult to get people to work together sometimes.  

well, i ain't trying to get you to "work together" with me.
and i don't particularly want to "work together" with you.

i have some knowledge you would find useful, if you'd listen.
but if you don't want to listen, it's no real skin off my nose...

>    Research on what the term "compromise" means 
>    and you'll understand why we are able to work together 
>    despite differences of opinion.  You give some, you take some.

sounds wonderful.   have at it.

i'm interested in electronic-books, not joining with your cult,
so i'll just pick up the books after you're done preparing them,
and move them on to an increased state of usefulness myself...

>    I'm not always going to get my way with regard to 
>    how I think things should be done with regard to 
>    how to do my post-processing, but it never hurts to 
>    ask the opinion of others who have done the same work 
>    to get their input on how I should do it.  Yes, i don't have to 
>    take their advice, but I definately do listen to any and all opinions.

i don't think so.   or you wouldn't be trying to shout me down.

but -- unlike the past -- i'm not going to let your nastiness
and the nastiness of your colleagues interrupt me this time.

i'm just gonna keep posting examples that prove my pudding.

and this listserve?   i don't much need it any longer.   because
i'm not trying to "preview" my system to you guys any more.
i'm taking it out into the world, so they can taste the pudding.

-bowerbird