RE: Notice: False Review on Amazon.com of e-RPG book -- RPG400-L

Bradley,
I despise anyone who would impersonate another (e.g. Al Barsa) to give you a
bad review.  Whoever did it was unprofessional.  I am purchasing your book
today to demonstrate my support for you and e-RPG.  I also support your
efforts in getting the false review deleted.  Good luck.  For some reason
the URL link you provided did not work for me.  Amazon supplied a message:
"ASIN 1583470085/002-70 does not exist in our catalog. Would you like to try
your search again?"
I performed my own search on Amazon using "eRPG" and found your book.  The
URL I have is directly below.
 
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1583470085/o/qid=962996939/sr=2-1/103
-2348651-9399001

Eric Lehti



-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 12:12 PM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: Notice: False Review on Amazon.com of e-RPG book


This mail is to inform everyone that a review of my e-RPG book that says is
by Al Barsa is false, and was not posted by Al Barsa or are these his views
in the least bit.  The link is:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/book-customer-reviews/1583470085/002-70
82495-2949663

The review is as follows:

--- begin quote ---
"Reviewer: Al Barsa from USA 
Maybe I expected more, but this book really did not provide a very good
insight into the complexities of building e-commerce. 
Rather it seemed to promote what could be done with RPG Programming Language
and suggest this was sufficient. 
The book requires a leap of faith to believe that what is delivered is a
good solution. There is no justification to the approach apart from that the
programming language is RPG and the implication is RPG is good. 
Hopefully the AS/400 programming community will ignore this book and build
real e-commerce solutions"
----- end of quote -----

I have been in contact with Al and he wants it to be known that he did not
post this.  Al is in London right now visiting family and can't post to this
list, so he wanted me to pass along this information.  He will confirm this
message on the Midrange-L mailing list as soon as he returns.

If anyone has any contacts at Amazon and can help us find the IP address of
the person that posted this, or to simply get it removed, it would be a
great help.  We are working to get this review removed as well, as it is no
doubt a joke in very poor taste that doesn't help the book, Al, myself, or
the AS/400 community as a whole.

Thanks,
Brad 
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