missing cross stitch directions

 


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judy

need bucilla kit #84025 father christmas directions.
thanks


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  On 22 Mar 2009 20:11:47 GMT, jcressey_at_msn_dot_com@foo.com
(jcressey) opined:


What is going on here ?  It would appear that sewgirls has linked
themselves to our group.   This is not a great idea as I presume OM
does not wish to have her post appearing there.

Perhaps sewgirls might like to explain this as I suspect they are
drumming up quantities of posts (showing as made to their group) for
some commercial reason.

Be interesting to see if they are even checking here to see what was
said.

  lucretia borgia wrote:

One or two people on alt.sewing complained about this some time back.
It seems that they are a monitored group, allowing only their members to
post, but they ADVERTISE that they pick up everything on the Usenet
except spam and foul language.  They also appear to carry a great deal
of advertising.  If you will Google (or whichever search engine you
prefer) for sewgirls, you can read all about it.  Incidentally, when I
checked on them last time, when the alt.sewing people complained, they
seemed only to carry that list.  Now, however, I see that they are also
copying the quilting, machine embroidery and yarn boards to their cosy,
safely monitored, exclusive, advertising-rich site.

A pity they cannot be sufficiently grown up to read the real thing.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

 opined:

This happened on my local group and we discovered that it was a forum
just like sewgirls.   What was in it for them was the more 'posters'
they appeared to have, the more advertising revenue they could
generate.

In the end some of the men physically threatened the owner of the
forum and pdq he unlinked our group.  It's too bad, I noticed the post
because the format for forums is different from usenet and the average
forum poster does not realize that their post would appear here with
no lead in.  

Maybe we should all start posting at sewgirls and tell them we don't
like it ?  I resent being made use of and I like to know where my
posts are going.

  wrote:

It appears to be a fairly common practise. Posts show up on the
commercial sites appearing as if we posted there.  Try googling
yourself (or me - since you might be disappearing) on the Web.
Revenge of the spammers, I say.
Dora