askpixie.

08.28.04

Thanks for the post, but would you mind deleting the post at http://www.pixiemartin.com/073104.htm? I appreciate all of your feedback.  We are in the process of updating the site, and I would appreciate it if we didn't advertise the lack of proof reading.  Please don't post this message as well.

Thanks,

Jennifer
Juicy Cosmetics

AND

We have not heard back from you yet. Please remove the text from the page http://www.pixiemartin.com/073104.htm. We don't wish to make this information public. The email address listed is also a private email.

Thanks,

Jennifer

This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.  Copyright 2004 Juicy Cosmetics.  All rights reserved.

Jennifer,

You know, I think I'll kick this off with my horoscope for today:

"Although to their authors certain notions are nothing short of sheer genius - e.g., if I stand in traffic, the speeding cars will create a wonderful air flow, thereby cooling me off - you may not be so swift to see the beauty of their scheme(s). In fact, you may be rather quick to indicate the potential, er, flaws instead." 

If you'd have sent this missive through my regular email address, I might have made a passing comment somewhere at some time on the site along the lines of, "It would appear that I upset someone with my ascerbic commentary regarding the substance of a commercial website. Enough so that they requested that I remove an entry. Which isn't going to happen, but made me laugh pretty loudly."

However, you did solicit a link through an advice column's email address, and then were apparently dismayed to discover that said link request was posted and the site in question's construction unfavorably critiqued in said advice column.

So, I can't imagine why you thought that your requests for the post to be removed and the requests themselves not to be shared with the world at large, sent through that exact same advice column's email address, wouldn't somehow end up being column-fodder.

As an aside, my favorite part of your email disclaimer, is the following:

"This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual named. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail."

Being that I am the intended individual named, I feel more than free to disseminate, distribute and copy any e-mail sent to my email address(es). And I don't recall signing a non-disclosure agreement with your company. So... confidentiality? Pshaw.

Almost all sites -- including the commercial types - have at some point been riddled with errors of some sort or other. That is what updating and maintaining a site is all about. So what if you didn't have someone proof-read very well before going live? You fix the problems and get over it.

Extra, Extra!

Read all about it!

"Insignificant Personal Website Pokes Fun at Commercial Start-up's Website! Commercial Website Owners Take Umbrage! Fur Flies! Get the Juicy Details Inside!"

If I were you, from now on, I would prove me wrong by having the most well-maintained and proof-read website ever.

Acknowledge and move on.

And remember that sometimes any sort of controversy is better than no controversy at all.

After all, this world is largely peopled by rubberneckers and the types that click-through just to see what all the hoopla is about:

"What's all this nonsense about juicy-cosmetics.com? Why, I think I'll take a look for myself and see! Ooh, shiny lipgloss! Mmm, and body lotion!"

You can color me an insensitive asshole, and perhaps even garner some sympathy and potential consumers in the process!

Besides, have you read this site? I really don't think that they majority of my readership really cares whether or not you have a proof-reader on the payroll.

I certainly don't employ one.

You can tell this by the frequent typos, incorrectly spelled words, and egregious abuse of commas.*

Long story short? Yes, I would in fact mind deleting the post at http://www.pixiemartin.com/073104.htm.

I have, as a courtesy, edited the email address you claim to be confidential, but that's it.

The rest of the content stays as is.

As does this content right here.

And this content, too.

-- pixie

Yesterday & Tomorrow.

*As well as most other forms of punctuation employed here on pixiemartin.com. I haven't cracked open the MLA Guidelines in quite a long time, you see.

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