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

["Cobb, Laura" <LCobb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There always has to be someone out there who wants to ruin a good thing for
others.  It just sickens me.


L.A.C.
  :-)


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
                Sent:   Friday, July 07, 2000 1:12 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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