RE: Notice: False Review on Amazon.com of e-RPG book

can we end this now?

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> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Al Barsa, Jr.
> Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 2:46 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Notice: False Review on Amazon.com of e-RPG book
>
>
> At 01:58 PM 7/7/00 +0100, you wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Just for the record.  To the best of my knowledge, there are four Albert
> Barsa's in the United States.  Barsa is a Syrian name which means
> blond.  (If you haven't noticed, there's no one from Syria with
> blond hair
> other than Miss Clarol.)
>
> My father is Albert S. Barsa, and goes by Al.  I am Albert S. Barsa, Jr.
> and go by Al.  My son is Albert S. Barsa, III and goes by Albert.    All
> three of us live in Harrison or Rye New York, which are adjacent towns in
> the southeast part of Westchester County.  My Dad works for me as my
> bookkeeper and my son is going into eighth grade.  We have a
> distant cousin
> named Albert J. Barsa who is an engineer working for one of the large
> engineering firms in northeastern Connecticut (I'd like to say Pratt &
> Whitney, but I don't remember) and I think he goes by Albert (but
> again it
> has been between 10 and 15 years since we last spoke).  Albert J. is
> knowledgeable in computers, but is only vaguely aware of the existence of
> the AS/400.  This is completely in line with IBM's goal of keeping the
> AS/400 as the stealth computer, God forbid it would crush the
> remainder of
> the computer world, making the AS/400 Division extremely profitable.
>
> With as much humbleness as I can muster, I think that when anyone in the
> AS/400 community signs a note with the name Al Barsa, it
> shouldn't be hard
> figure out the reference.  Anyone who would have assumed one of the other
> three would have to have an IQ so low that when you square it, you get a
> lower number. It's not like Barsa is a common name, like Hoffman,
> which in
> this community could easily refer to either Sharon, Bruce or many other
> people.  (Bruce is a friend, and I firmly believe that if you squared his
> IQ, you  would get a number that is at least a little bit higher.)
>
> And by the way Bruce, would you really want another Al Barsa?  Tom Jarosh
> would have to get a second dart board :-)))  [money that would better be
> spend on advertising]
>
> Al - in cold London - for the baptism of a new nephew, whose
> godfather will
> be Albert Barsa, III.
>
>
>
>
> >"R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." wrote:
> >
> ><Just to play devils advocate here....
> >
> >How do you know there isn't another Al Barsa?  I know of two...
> Al and Al Jr.
> >(maybe three... isn't his son Albert, the third?)  They're all
> on one side
> >of the
> >country (east).  It isn't from Al Jr. is it?  Then maybe... in this vast
> >country
> >of ours...
> >
> >Second, how big of an ego do you need to think that such a review is not
> >valid?
> >While I have not read the book, the idea that just because you *can* do
> >something
> >in RPG, does not mean that you *should* do it in RPG.
> >
> >You just assume that this is a joke, that it is FALSE, and then you want
> >someone's *opinion* to be quashed.  Someone, by your own admission, you
> >have NOT
> >been in contact with.  You called the Al you know... >
> >
> >I see what you say to an extent Bruce, but let's be fair here.
> Whoever did
> >this
> >knew enough about the OBSCURE 400  world (<BG>), the book in
> question AND Al
> >Barsa's name that it is a REAL stretch that it is "another" Al Barsa and
> >was done
> >legitimately... I think THAT is the real issue...
> >
> >Amazon.Com has gotten into hot water over stuff like this in the past.
> >They allow
> >ANYONE to post a review, which is fine, but they do need to provide some
> >means of
> >validating a person is who they claim to be. They have had rival
> publishing
> >companies posting disparaging reviews of competitors books, etc.
> >
> >No offense !
> >
> >JMHO
> >
> >Chuck
>
>
>
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