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Reading Comprehension 101

30 July 2008

I was reading the comments to a post over on Making Light when I saw a post Teresa Nielsen Hayden made about another site. Her comment was about the comments on a post at AdPulp being a moderator’s nightmare. Well, in all fairness, the original blog post at Making Light is [...]

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Scam! Scammy! Scammer! Scammiest!

20 May 2008

I’m following Mad Scientist Matt in the AW Blog Chain, and he talked about scams regarding fuel savings and cars. Well, I know nothing about scams and cars, but I do know plenty about scams and publishing. Or scams and the Internet. Scams and email. There sure are a lot of [...]

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JC Hosting folding?

12 June 2006

JCHosting, the former domain host for AbsoluteWrite, who shut them down on an hour’s notice over a complaint by Barbara Bauer, appears to be going out of business. Or so they claim in their personal blogs. On the hosting site, it appears to be business as usual.
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Even more sites talking about the AbsoluteWrite Takedown

3 June 2006

Just to update things a bit. I could keep updating my post from a few days ago, but it’s probably so buried by all the posts since then that I have no idea if anyone is even finding it. So, in that vein, here are additional sites that are posting about the AW takedown…

Freelance.wurk.net
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Stephanie Cordray speaks up

2 June 2006

On this site. Where she says:
The owner’s site was suspended because of:
-Past due for the month of May. Hosting expired on May 11, 2006. -Refusal to pay bandwidth overages. -Refusal to [...]

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Absolute Write got their forum database back

2 June 2006

In theory. (Look at comments starting 01 June 11:29pm). Jenna is, naturally, cautious about announcing that they have access to the databases since it has not yet been confirmed that they are intact and in working order.
On Stephanie’s thread, there are comments from Stephanie and James C, the two owners of JC Hosting, the hosting [...]

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BoingBoing in on the action

1 June 2006

It’s all here.
Similar Posts:

Absolute Write down?
Barbara Bauer and the (very very many ) blog posts about her
Jenna Glatzer of Absolute Write
The Top Twenty Worst Agents
AbsoluteWrite the update

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Barbara Bauer issues literary awards

31 May 2006

I’ve heard of scummy scammers posing as agents doing that, but this is the first one I’ve seen, and by Barbara "The Babs" Bauer herself. Ho boy! What a treat!
Bi it known that
The Barbara Bauer Literary Agency, Inc.
hereby authorizes and awards this
Certificate of Approval
to
Milan Nesic
in recognition of satisfactory [...]

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AbsoluteWrite the update

31 May 2006

If you don’t already know it, the refugee forums are up and running. No, they’re not pretty, and no, it’s not the forums from AW prior to the takedown, but they’ll do for now.
Also, Jenna Glatzer, owner/operator of Absolute Write, has made a plea for donations.
Birol offered a brief update:
Today, as the clock [...]

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Time-release GoogleBomb against literary scammers

30 May 2006

Mad Scientist Matt, commenting over at Dawno’s blog, said, in reference to the top twenty worst agents list:
I think I’m going to start a time-release Googlebomb on my blog, now that I’ve had a chance to ponder things. Each week I will feature a new agent on the list and some of the lowlights of [...]

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