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

I've been silent through all this, but all I can say is I am 99.44% sure that 
the
"Al Barsa" signature is false, and that it is not a true review.

Why I say this, 1. Not many Al Barsa's in the USA.  2. Every review I read gave
the book highest marks, with this one exception.  3.  Everyone here knows who
Al Barsa is and hold him in the highest regards, he would be the obvious one to
imitate in such a blantant fraudulent manner.

I stand behind Brad in his endevours to get the review removed.

Regards,

Jim Langston

"Cobb, Laura" wrote:

> 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.

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