Please do not bring negativity to the group!!(Valerie)

December 25, 2004

Valerie,

If you are offended that this email was sent to you privately, why would you

post it on the public board for the rest us? My guess is that the author sent

the email hoping you'd take the bait and post here in the group for all to see.

You are actually helping this person. There is no way they could have emailed

over 1000 members so you've saved him or her a great deal of time.

There is a reason moderators don't approve messages like this.

You could have easily spoke highly of the group owner and shared his positive

aspects without reposting this negativity which is unproductive for the group.

Derrick

Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good.

December 26, 2004

Derrick,

I rec'd the message in my private email as well even though I have

selected " no email " as a preference. So this person obviously does

have a way to email other members of the group.

Thank you to Valerie for alerting me as to what this was all about.

terry

rawfood , Derrick <vegiebowl> wrote:

> Valerie,

>

> If you are offended that this email was sent to you privately, why

would you post it on the public board for the rest us? My guess is

that the author sent the email hoping you'd take the bait and post

here in the group for all to see. You are actually helping this

person. There is no way they could have emailed over 1000 members so

you've saved him or her a great deal of time.

>

> There is a reason moderators don't approve messages like this.

>

> You could have easily spoke highly of the group owner and shared

his positive aspects without reposting this negativity which is

unproductive for the group.

>

> Derrick

>

> Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good.

>

December 26, 2004

Hi, Derrick,

I understand your concern, and I concur, you are right that I should not have

included the email from the other person. I did not think that through

completely before posting. I think I reacted too quickly, mainly because I have

experienced someone doing a similar thing that came close to destroying what had

been a fairly healthy group in another area, and I did not want to see that

happen here.

If you look at all my other posts, you will see that I have never brought

anything like this or indeed, any other negative thing to this board. I have

enjoyed the give and take, and hope to continue to do so. I just was very

concerned that Roger Haeske was being maligned by someone who apparently meant

to do him and this board harm, and I did not think it was doing him justice.

This is part of the difficult aspect of email groups; most of us really don't

know each other, and a certain amount of trust has to be practiced among the

participants. It can be a pretty fragile thing. As I've said in other emails, we

need to give each other the benefit of the doubt as much as possible.

Thanks for the input on my post; I will keep that in mind should another such

incident occur.

Blessings,

Valerie

Derrick <vegiebowl wrote: