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From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 11:52:22 -0400
Fwd Date: Sat, 03 May 1997 11:52:22 -0400
Subject: Re: Financing For Hearings In Congress,(idea)




>From: EdKomarek@aol.com
>Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 15:24:11 -0400 (EDT)
>To: updates@globalserve.net
>cc: skywatch@phoenix.net, iufo@world.std.com
>Subject: Re, Re Financing For Hearings In Congress,(idea)


>>Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 00:50:52 -0500 (CDT)
>>To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
>>From: Dennis Stacy <dstacy@texas.net>
>>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Financing For Hearings In Congress,(idea)


>>>A POTENTIAL INTRODUCTORY LETTER
>>>Toward gaining corporate financing for hearings in Congress
>>>By Ed Komarek

[snip]

>>I happen to personally know the CEO of a Fortune 500 company
>>-- involved in aeronautics -- and I can assure you that your
>>letter, as worded, will not get past the proverbial first base.
>>In the unlikely event that it does, however, it will do us more
>>harm than good.

>>"Oh, ufologists," I can hear him saying now. "Aren't they the
>>people who can't even spell, let alone back up their claims?
>>And I'm supposed to put my good corporate name (and that of my
>>stockholders) behind their efforts to petition congress? Maybe
>>when pigs fly -- unless you try to tell me that flying pigs are
>>reverse-engineered UFOs."

[snip]

>        Come on Dennis give me a break.  That was simply a draft letter
>posted to a list.  I edit and publish my own newspaper, Citizens Oversight,
>with a run of 30,000 copies that is just as good or better than any other
>newspaper in this area.  I of course use spell check which I don't happen to
>have with this aol email.  I just don't have the time right now to edit and
>spell check stuff.  I would rather use the time in a more advantagous manner.
>Just hold you nose and read!

Ed,

Your letter, as you so glibly put it, is _not_ "simply
a draft letter to a list"! Your headers show you posted
to at least two other lists. Of the three, two, that I
know of, are archived on a publicly accessed web-site.
There are probably many thousands of people reading your
'drafts'. Citing "time" really does not make it. What's
wrong with composing your posts in a program that _does_
spell check and then copying and pasting 'em into your
AOL software?

>As for the rest of your post, well what can I say?  A few errors in a
>draft letter are relatively easy to correct.  Your post speaks volumes about
>you, MUFON and the quality of your leadership in that organization.

Tsk, tsk, Ed. Dennis made some valid points that don't
warrant a pissy, personal-attack. He's right. You need
to think a little harder about the overall image of
ufology. Don't post 'draft' letters in _very_ public
forums. If you _really_ want to help, use email to
solicit opinions and suggestions - hell, there are
a dozen or so damn good writers on this List who
would be most happy to pool talent, privately, in order
to _make_ points for ufology.

Errol