Re: Re: Re: [PHP-WEBMASTER] Article contribution

I'm bringing this back onto the list.... On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:52, Sammy Davis <sammy@webhostingsearch.com> wrote: > Okay, upon reading the email a second time, I sound like a douche bag.  I > feel like I just got showcased on the Daily Show's douche bag segment.  I > sincerely apologize and really meant no harm in being offensive. > Let me give a little more insight into what we do.  I should make clear > that we do not make any money when people "click" on buttons to other sites > from ours.  In fact, we only get something if someone successfully signs > up; meaning they stay with the hosting provider for at least a couple > months.  I would appreciate if you do not put us in the same spammy boat as > our competitors. You're absolutely right, and I need to apologize for my previous response. It was ill-considered prior to clicking the "Send" button. It's not how I would normally conduct myself, professionally or personally, and I'm sorry that I did and directed it toward you. > We work a lot. We have editors and developers that work to improve the > usability and structure of the site.  To say that we are some run of the > mill affiliate site is also, quite offensive.  Yes, we do business in a > different way but it neither makes it wrong, bad, or useless.  We provide > for people who aren't that internet savvy or even know what web hosting is. >  In that we have achieved a lot when someone reads an article on the site > and decides their little business should get online. And they then buy an > account from one of our partners. That makes sense. > More importantly, as a company today we are looking to give back to the > community.  I apologize for sounding so brazen in the last email but we > would like to seek some way to support the PHP initiative. > Can we start over? I may not have many years behind the keyboard but I > certainly am passionate and willing to make up for my mistakes. I may not have thought highly of the wording of the emails, but it's not a justification for what I said, and there's no excuse for the way I publicly dressed you down - hence my bringing this back onto the list instead of saying so in private. Bottom line is that I was wrong - wow.... yes, wrong! - and I'm sorry. Keep following up with Hannes though to see if you can work something out. I'm going to go sit in the doghouse for a while. ;-P -- </Daniel P. Brown> daniel.brown@parasane.net || danbrown@php.net http://www.parasane.net/ || http://www.pilotpig.net/