[TheForge] YAK: Apology

[Dave Brown]

At 12:48 05/21/04, you wrote:

>To those who feel that this forum is not the place for such dialogue I
>respectfully disagree.  When you have only one national organization that is
>publishing the only national newsletter and the board that governs it can
>selectively ban someone like George Dixon from advertising a resource like
>the Traditional Metalsmith, something is horribly wrong.

While I may agree with you in part, I must disagree in whole.  Under 
present circumstances I can't agree with the feeling that "... something is 
horribly wrong <with ABANA>."  It seems to me that ABANA and it's elected 
BOD are acting reasonable in this case.  I don't see where the organization 
should be required to accept advertising from an individual who has spent 
most of his on-line time over the last few years attacking and trying to 
take the organization down.  I'd feel different if it was solely about 
Claire Yellin and George's fair use of the Yellin name in his advertising, 
after all he did work there and that's all he's claiming.

It also seems to be more about George's actions than about the content of 
the advertising.  In my opinion it seems that George is making a valiant 
effort to make it look otherwise.  He's published an awful lot of hate for 
several years, sprinkled with an abundance of "poor me, pity me".   Or so 
is my conclusion after seeing and reading the diatribes that he's been 
posting for the last 4 to 6 years.

I've seen some of the stuff that George has written to past friends from up 
in Minnesota.  He had support up there, strong support for his position 
until his hatchet job on Bob Fredell simply because Bob got on the Board 
but didn't resolve things to George's satisfaction.

The bottom line for me, so far, is that it is somewhere between hard and 
impossible to side with George.

Now back to metal stuff.

Dave Brown
Who is happy that YAK and OT are now making it to the Subject lines
Heritage Smithing
Green Bay, WI
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