Missed Messages [repost]

My apologies to all those for whom this is a repost. If you are subscribed to the mailing list you have probably read this already.
Following is Max Armstrong's response to earlier messages sent directly to the mailing list this morning.
Max, i'm not sure from your post who you feel has been making use of "dismissive language".
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Subject: Belated Birthday Wish/ensuing topics
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:48:03 +0800
From: "Max Armstrong"
Dear all,
I bang my head constantly for opportunities lost by people presenting the
vision that they are master of thier own domain by the use of dismissive
language to the lesser mortals.
Perhaps a lot more mileage would have been gained by a simple "Yes please,
inclusion on your site would be much appreciated. Our web address is
http://blah blah.etc.au "
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Malcolm
To: itawa@egroups.com
Date: Friday, 10 March 2000 9:37
Subject: Re: Belated Birthday Wish
Hi Stephen
>> Dear Grant, Jarrod and anyone else interested, I note with interest your
>>comments regarding your own website but am a little perplexed that you are
>>very pleased at upping the hits to your website to 60 a day and wish
others
>>would publicise it, because when ozdiary tried to do this, our offers have
>>been largely ignored.
I should have thought our being pleased with more hits was a fairly normal reaction.
>>Ozdiary, which is a nationwide directory of the
>>performing arts, gets over 3,000 hits a week (our counter indicates around
>>300 of these come from Perth).
Congratulations :)
I note that Ozdiary also includes information on art galleries, exhibitions, cinema, tv, news, weather, sport, finance, leisure, travel and tourism.
>>We have written, faxed and posted on your
>>egroup repeated offers to include your members' information, including
your
>>website address, on our site for free but so far we have had few takers.
I think the ITA committee would express similar frustration at the slow response from some member companies to their own requests for information.
>>All entries would be linked to your site so this couldn't help but
increase
>>awareness of your site and help put more bums on seats. We don't want to
>>drop WA from our listings as we have many regular Perth people who come to
>>the site for other reasons (tourism, tv guide, cinema guide etc) and end
up
>>visiting the what's on pages looking for theatre, arts, classical music
>>info. From the feedback we receive from them, they appreciate and use our
>>site but we have had comments that our theatre guide is very limited and
>>wonder why it is not more comprehensive. We'd love for it to be so, but if
>>we are not told what's on, we can't tell anyone else.
All the information you seek is freely available on the ITA website. You will notice that copyright notices are not appended to each page. Please feel free to help yourself to whatever information you require.
The ITA website is a communication medium for a well established, flourishing organisation with a highly active membership. The site is built around a shared vision of an interactive arts community. It has always been more than a sales brochure, product catalogue or calendar of events.
Cheers
Grant
PS. Unfortunately this message was posted to the mailing list and so won't appear on the website - unless someone wanted to continue the discussion there?