[kw-pm] [kwlug disc.] from the LUG book contact at o'reilly

[lloyd carr]

The "slightly rueful smiley", what exactly does that one look like Daniel?
My vocabulary of emoticons is paltry, too say the least.

-Lloyd

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Daniel R. Allen wrote:

> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 18:52:30 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Daniel R. Allen <da at coder.com>
> To: kw-pm at mail.pm.org
> Subject: Re: [kw-pm] [kwlug disc.] from the LUG book contact at o'reilly
>
> On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Simon Law wrote:
>
> > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:32:51AM -0400, Daniel R. Allen wrote:
> > > I expect we might have a different result if we published an unfavourable
> > > review on slashdot.
> >
> >         Yeah, but I'd rather have the reputation of being an honest
> > reviewer, than one that could be bought by free (and potentially bad)
> > books.
>
> Absolutely.  I didn't mean to give the impression that I was suggesting
> otherwise.  One's reputation for integrity and honesty, and that of our
> group, is worth more than free books.
>
> My sentence above ought to have a slightly rueful smiley after it.  When I
> wrote it, I meant to gently tease Lloyd, who was a good enough sport to
> write the negative review for the O'Reilly XML book which, frankly,
> deserved a negative review.
>
> As for Robert's question, "what if it was an absolute dog of a book", I
> would say there is nothing dishonourable about only publishing the review
> locally, and not on Slashdot.  My comment was only about *where* the
> review was published, not at all about watering down the contents.
>
> If somebody in the group wanted to publish a really negative oreilly
> review on slashdot (for a book they got for review), I'd suggest we
> discuss it as a group and come to a general agreement.  Sure, there might
> be a book so bad we need to warn the world.  But this is a hypothetical
> case, and I don't think it's necessarily worth hashing over until that
> really awful book comes up!
>
> Cheers,
> -Daniel
>
> > Simon
>
>
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