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updated fri 6 aug 99

 

elizabeth priddy on wed 4 aug 99

I also found the site interesting and an exciting
idea. Few sites have real content and invite others
to contribute. Those clayarters without the time
or interest in generating their own sites, should take
Stan up on his offer. If he follows through and posts
your pictures and essays, then he was sincere and
should be forgiven and praised for his hutspah.
The site is extremely well made and I would be pleased
to be associated with it, although I am initially wary
due to the spam-like intro. Some others had said
that cross-linking will assist in publicizing your
websites. His site would be a good one to link to
because it is content-rich and by its nature it
should be dynamic. As is Virtual Ceramics. Both add
to the internet clay community and should be welcomed,
and eventually accepted after the ruffled feathers
lie down.

I don't like getting spammed either. Stan has done
all that he can do about it, he apologized. And this
was the most "appropriate" spam I had ever received.
I usually just delete it. Instead, I went and looked
and was surprised to find something interesting and
appropriate to me specifically. I think we should
all collectively cut him some slack, but just this
once, and help him with this project if we can...


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Elizabeth Priddy

I speak from sincerity and experience, not authority...
email: epriddy@usa.net
website: www.angelfire.com/nc/clayworkshop


On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 14:16:48 Peter Atwood wrote:
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Hi All,
>
>Looks like we all got the eglaze message. For all the grousing about Stan's
>lack of net etiquette there has been little said about the positive points
>of his site. I found the site to be well designed but a little light on
>information which is not surprising for what is presumably a new endeavor.
>
>What I was most impressed with however, was the idea of showing photos of a
>glaze then giving the recipe. I have been hungering for a long time for this
>type of arrangement. I find it very frustrating to mix up a test batch of
>Mary's Blue which sounded great in the description only to find out that
>it's a milky bluish off white mess that no one would would ever want on
>their pots. If I had seen a picture of the glaze beforehand I would have
>saved myself some time and tried something else.
>
>Hopefully someone will either build a site that functions as a database of
>glaze photos/recipes or Stan will get it together socially.
>
>On a similar note: I have been getting tons of spam recently and Clayart is
>the only list/newsgroup that I belong to. Someone has been harvesting this
>list. I wish there was a bullet you could send to these jerks and screw up
>their systems.
>
>--Peter Atwood
>
>fuming in Western MA
>
>
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