(Space Cowboy) wrote in message . com...
Hi all,

The good news I got dsl. The bad news no newsgroup server. The good
news I can surf. The bad news I have too redouble my efforts to put
any WWW site mentioned in this group in my browser's prohibited
websites. Nothing worse than surfing then to stumble across someone's
clueless idea of where to buy tea on the Internet. Now exacerbated by
the recent phenomenom of each site with it's own groupies. You know
my guy knows more about puerh than your guy or your yixing pot is mass
produced and my handcrafted by an artisan. How come this particular
businessman thinks you're so stupid? He hasn't said anything new on
the subject from yixing seasoning to cooking piles. It is nothing
more than la-de-da and pssst buy something from me while having to
listen to him and a buyer clarify an order over the ng. So for us who
boil water with no newsgroup server that only leaves Google with no
guarantee of any timelag turnaround so I'll miss my tit-for-tat
repartee but it'll give me more time to enjoy my expensive pence\gram
tea. If I ever figure how to do it again I'll get a new Google
account with my new email address because died
with the 14.4 dialup. Look a picture of a naked woman in an email
popup while Googling, Yahoo*&$&^%$#*&

Jim

Mike Petro wrote in message . ..
Michael has helped me by educating me, above and beyond any business
transactions. I, for one, appreciate his posts. I feel that they are
predominantly informational with very little spam injected. Yes he has
a business and might be a little overt at times, but I think he brings
a lot to the table. Being in the business gives him a certain
credibility that most of us consumers just don't have.

Michael, I would refrain from directly criticizing other specific
vendors though, like the Lipton thing. It comes across as being less
than objective when everyone knows you have your own business.

Just MHO,


Mike Petro

Just a little response to passionate 1480 comments snipped and quoted
below.


"Nothing worse than surfing then to stumble across someone's clueless
idea of where to buy tea on the Internet."

I thought the purpose of News Groups was to share information. In
addition, I would think letting others know where to get some product
that is not easy to find. Alternatively, referring someone to a source
you have had good luck with this product this is sharing information
and what News Groups are for or so I thought.

"How come this particular businessman thinks you're so stupid?"

When I posted information about tea and teapots, I said I never
claimed to know everything. I posted this information based off my
first hand experiences. If I made you or anyone else, feel stupid I
am sorry about that, it was not my intention, maybe I should be more
careful when sharing my experiences.

"He hasn't said anything new on the subject from yixing seasoning to
cooking piles."

I only thought that maybe new users would want to see a fresh topic
that was not from 1995 about the processing of tea and other things
asked about often in the New Group, instead of having to dig to the
bottom to find the answer.

"It is nothing more than la-de-da and pssst buy something from me
while having to listen to him and a buyer clarify an order over the
ng."

It is ok if you do not buy anything from me I can accept that. I have
plenty of very happy repeat customers. My intention was not to come
here and sell my products it was to share information. In Hindsight
posting that I sell teapots in this forum was for sure a mistake. I
was only trying to be helpful to the group, but as the old sayings
goes "You can please some of the people some of the time but you can
not please all of the people all of the time."

I will no longer post anything that refers to my business I will
continue to ignore the abundant links to other companies left by users
wanting to help others out by referring them to a source. In
addition, as soon as I figure out how to change my e-mail address I
will change it to something less revealing so that the more sensitive
people are not offended or threatened by it. I will continue to post
pertinent information when I find the time, or answer any questions
asked of me to my best of my ability. I will no longer respond to
these types of negative messages it is not worth the time and it is
like trying to remove a ink dot from a paper the harder you try to
remove it the more messy it gets.

Thanks to all of you who backed me up, it is greatly appreciated. I
am sorry if you think that I should have not responded to this
however, I felt that I had to put in one last word regardless of the
outcome.

me