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- From: cls@truffula.sj.ca.us (Cameron L. Spitzer)
- Subject: Re: Loaded phrasings
- Reply-To: greenpeace-knocks@truffula.sj.ca.us
- Organization: Save the Humans!
- Followups-To: alt.save.the.earth
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 07:43:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.074311.9969@truffula.sj.ca.us>
- Summary: Put up or shut up
- References: <1993Jan14.055043.6799@grebyn.com> <Jym.25Jan1993.0352@naughty-peahen> <1k37asINN29k@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1k37asINN29k@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
-
- >Do you suppose that requests that GreenHype include all critical information
- >(e.g., the amount of Pu found on beaches near Sellafield, the time-frame for
- >their 1/17 probability of a Candu meltdown) in their press releases might have
- >an effect?
-
- Not if you post them in this newsgroup. Perhaps you're *afraid* of
- the asnwer you might get if you actually communicated your complaint
- to Greenpeace.
-
- I opened a spool for that purpose here on truffula. So far, none of
- the people who frequently complain about "GreenHype" in this newsgroup
- have mailed anything into it. I believe that these complainers do not
- actually want their complaints addressed by a Greenpeace spokesperson.
-
- If you do want to influence the writing style in Greenpeace's press
- releases, or their direct mail fundraising techniques, or their
- *focus* and *priorities*, then do something constructive about it.
- Otherwise you're just full of hot air.
-
- Mail your serious, calm, specific complaints about Greenpeace directly
- to Greenpeace, and share the results with us. (But don't whine about
- what someone with only a first name once told you on the phone that you
- can't remember exactly. Who cares?) Or, email them to
- greenpeace-knocks@truffula.sj.ca.us
- and I'll do the work. Messages longer than *20* KB will be
- automatically truncated. Everything I've received so far has been
- highly constructive.
-
- One correspondent said I should extract his complaint from an ongoing
- thread here. That's not what I volunteered to do, and I don't see why
- I should do your editing for you.
-
- Cameron
-