Re: writing solicitation. final installment

**"* C* <d*@sympatico.ca>**


> You're welcome Nan, et al.
>
> I really think this goes to show the value of this list when experience 
> and
> wisdom get shared freely amongst the lot of us who have yet to acquire a
> sufficiency of it in this craft.
>
> However, Perhaps there is another aspect to this. The solicitation was 
> open,
> to the point, and made no attempts to "fool" us other than to talk of
> exposure and make an appeal to vanity.
>
> This is certainly not an isolated case.  Both Doug Green and Donna Dawson
> uncovered  sites where not only is this the norm, but on one site they 
> were
> selling the "rights" to other sites that wanted to bump up their content.
> Once you had submitted a piece, you were forever out of the picture. To 
> the
> point that someone else could take credit for your work. Caveat venditor,
> eh!
>
> There is one thing that these sites can't offer and that's the credibility
> of the authors in their "stable." Ahem, us professionals have (or should
> have) a very good awareness of our preferred topic of horticulture and 
> some
> skills in communication. That sort of stuff is traceable. I can, and very
> often do, google folks on the list, and check out their provenance so to
> speak. I can also get references from peers. If I'm going to reasonably
> accept what some vitamin D deficient chap in Alaska has to say and compare
> that to what comes out of la-la land San Luis Obispo, I want to have some
> confidence that they know what they're saying, even it is all about worm
> poop.
>
> Dan
> The Good Earth Columnist
> Dan Clost's Greenscapes
> Member, GWA, LOHTA, CNLA, UCC (choir division)
> 
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