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

[Daniel R. Allen]

;-P

On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, lloyd carr wrote:

> 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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