A Public Note to Mark Wieder and the Rev list:

[Marielle Lange]

Josh,

I consider your email highly inappropriate.  I believe you are over- 
reacting. More importantly, I believe that the only thing you will  
achieve is to have more emails having the potential to damage your  
business ranked high in Google.

Having had contact with Mark both off and on-list I take him for one  
of the most righteous person I know.

I believe your reply caused a lot more damage to your business than  
Mark post ever did.

Indeed, you called his comments defamatory, while you have provided  
no evidence whatsoever as to the fact that his original email  
referred to events he didn't suffer from. This puts him in a lot  
better position to attack you for libel than his orginal post ever  
did Mark recommended persons to carefully check out the contract  
before doing business. This is an excellent recommendation to give,  
in *any* context.

Though I perfectly understand how the mention of the name of your  
business got you perceive that as a personal attack and something  
susceptible to put your business in danger, it's not clearly of a  
defamatory nature to me.

Again, I understand that you wrote this out of sense of threat  
against your business. However, your email to be over aggressive,  
something very much akin an attempt to frighten him in order to  
obtain what you want. To try to obtain something  by threat is not an  
excellent business practice.

Best would be to accept Richard's invitation to mediate and resolve  
this off-list. Try to forget about the damage having been done and  
rather think about the way you can use the situation to reinforce  
your reputation. Mishaps happen to all of us. All of us end up having  
one day our reputation comprised despite doing nothing wrong. The  
difference between the successful ones and the unsuccessful ones is  
about how we react when this happens. Fear kicks in, yes. But to  
listen to fear is not wise.

Marielle

> Mark, I asked you in an email to consider posting an apology/ 
> retraction (to no response). In the future, before posting a  
> defamatory attack on someone else, you might consider contacting  
> them first to resolve your differences. And before choosing to  
> leave a permanent, easily searchable and malicious statement  
> against them that is echoed to several public, web-searchable  
> places, consider that you are committing a serious criminal offense.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Josh Mellicker
> President/CEO
> DVcreators.net
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2007, at 7:33 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>>
>> I was hoping to make the trip down south, but sadly I'll have to pass
>> on another SoCal gathering.
>>
>> Given my recent experience, though, and on the theme of  
>> collaboration,
>> I have to caution anyone against doing business with Josh  
>> Mellicker or
>> dvcreators.net, especially in light of Josh's offer to get involved
>> with planning a revcon. If someone is seriously thinking about doing
>> work with them, my advice would be to get the money up front and make
>> sure there aren't any contract loopholes he can try to weasel out of.
>> But my main advice would be not to go down that road at all.
>>
>> -- 
>> -Mark Wieder
>>  mwieder at ahsoftware.net
>>
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