Re: GSWV updates: TO Calendar (Feb2000) & BlueBook (Mar2000)

[cturley2@aol.com (Cturley2)]

a2mg@aol.comNomail replied:
"Not to beat a dead horse, but I have never contributed to this magazine, nor
did I have any knowledge of this article before I stumbled upon it. If the
writer had contacted me, he would have probably gotten an interesting story
about DeskTools being freeware now (no proof of ownership required), what to
look for in the Calendar module, and how to get the update to Calendar v3.3,
which is Y2K-correct."

Well Bev,
Here's some more of my gibbeldygook (or whatever you called it)!
GS WorldView (the ONLY online Apple II ezine on the Internet and having been
online now for five years - freely available to everybody on a 7/24 basis) does
not consider itself to be a dead horse in any respect and neither do the many
1000's of visitors and readers of its contents over the past five years that
it's been online, to serve the needs of the Apple II users on the Internet.  We
ALL appreciate your not beating it any more than you already have too!

As the former Editor and now Contributing Editor of GS WorldView, I have
asked you on several occasions in the past for your input to GS Worldview with
reprints of your contributions, articles and postings to newsgroups.
Each time I was given a conclusive NO to these request.   The same goes for my
inviting you to become a staff member of the Delphi GS WorldView forum, that I
founded and host on delphi.com.  You replied to me: "fine - as long as I'm not
obligated to contribute
or expected to do anything."  (I still retain an email with that content reply
also FYI).  Well, that's not what a staff member of an A2 Forum on Delphi does.
 So, I don't consider you to really have staff status on that GS WorldView
forum. Now, that we have that matter cleared up in public,  I don't expect that
you will ever make any volunteer contributions to anything I or GS WorldView
ezine are trying to present to the A2 users. Other than your own efforts with
Y2K matters, AppleWorks and your web site offering, mailing list subscriptions
and so on, I never expect anything of you.  And, I think you've made that very
clear to me and most others also, abundantly during the past.

The nice thing about an online ezine is that whenever an error or mistake is
encountered it can be corrected promptly when it's called to the ezine staff's
attention and in most cases it is corrected as best we see fit to correct it.

With hard copy publications such as the Apple II newsletters that you and
others publish for a fee to subscribers, those publications must wait to make
corrections to their misinformation, errors and mistakes until the next issue
it published, printed and mailed to the subscribers.  

Both hard-copy subscription Apple II newsletters and online ezine publications
have their valid purposes and present valid and useful information to their
readers.  I prefer to be involved with online publications only and you prefer
to be involved with subscription hard-copy newsletter publications.  

I'm very happy with the fact that of the 100's of usenet posts that GS
Worldview elected to archive and bring to the attention of the general online
A2 users for their continued needs and reference, over the past five years -
less than a dozen or so people have ever objected to having their usenet posts
archived in the GS WorldView for such needs.

Even if I decided to try to get you to make a worthwhile, informative A2
contribution to GS WorldView - I couldn't because you've informed me NOT to
contact you by email and as your very email header in all of your post on this
newsgroup clearly shows, you DO NOT want to be contacted by email either nor do
you want your newsgroup post use by anybody in any form other than as you
presented it on this newsgroup.  All publications make mistakes and errors and
mistakes.  You certainly should understand that having been in the publishing
business a long as you have been in it.

GS WorldView and the staff is very sorry for any problems we have caused you in
any way.

Rubywand made the original html page that involved you and your efforts with
the TO.Calandar.  He has made the corrections as I requested per your
instructions online also.  As to your making future contributions for GS
WorldView inclusions - we shall see.  I'll ask Rubywand to contact you with
such a request.  Perhaps he will have some success with such a request - as we
all know you have much to offer the A2 users online, eith your talents
knowledge and skills. 

So, I trust that will clarify the matters under discussion here. I have nothing
more to say concerning any of it.

Cheers,
Tom