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Somewhere around March 2003, Kevin Barrack of waxyleaves.com clued in Cardhouse to our indescrete use of their article. Here is the letter (at least it's not signed by a lawyer). Since, it was a yellow alert at the time and no one wanted to be deported, we took the article down.
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Hello Ky Luong of Asiagrocery.com!
Please forgive me if you are not the correct person
to address concerning the contents of asiagrocery.com, but
you are the contact address given for this domain.
Someone mentioned that you have an interesting
description of haw flakes at your site, and I went to
http://www.asiagrocery.com/haw.htm to "check it out." And
there it was! A rather longish description of haw flakes,
with a few scanned-in pictures (pretty sloppy, methinks),
and the page includes some additional commentary about how
the person who wrote this article is a "totally clueless
American."
That's sort of weird, isn't it, Ky Luong of
Asiagrocery.com? That you're using this person's words to
sell your product, and then you turn around and insult them?
I wonder if this person knows you're doing that. I wonder if
this person even gave you their permission to use this
article for your own marketing purposes.
The answer, actually, is "no," seeing as how I'm the
guy who wrote the article. I'm the "totally clueless
American." Here's the link that you
"lost": http://www.cardhouse.com/a/pixbarn/p19.htm
Oh, that's another thing. I know, in these Homeland
Security Advisory System Threat Level Yellow (Elevated) times,
we're all under a lot of stress and we may say things we
regret now and then. My words are good enough to sell some
more haw flakes for you, but my nationality offends you
somehow, even though you're an American company, located in
America? I really don't get you, asiagrocery.com.
But I do get copyright law. And the last thing I want to
do right now is push haw flake units for you. Take 'er down,
asiagrocery.com. Take 'er down.