[Terrapreta] FW: Terrapreta Digest, Vol 11, Issue 71

[Greg and April]

FW: [Terrapreta] Terrapreta Digest, Vol 11, Issue 71Nikolaus,

I'm had to spend the night thinking about how to answer your e-mail, because I was not sure if I was more mad or hurt at what happened.

After repeatedly reading your post, I eventually decided that I was hurt that you jumped to one of a few possible conclusions and did not check with me to see if I actually did it, before bringing it out to air in public.    I also agree that had I actually did it, I would have deserved a royal dressing down.

Because you just don't know me very well ( and I like to think that we will get to know each other better in the future ), I accept your apology and forgive you.
    

To be perfectly honest when I first read your message, I couldn't even figure out if you was really talking to me or not, because the thought of the things you said is totally abhorrent to me, 
and looking over the letter from Mr. Cox, I can see where you might have received the impression that I had sent him a copy of the post between us, nor did he say anything in his letter to tell you how he came about it.    

I do want to make a few things clear - to you and to the list in general..... 

-    Unless someone has work, that has been openly published and is in the public domain, I do not directly quote them without their permission.

-    If they tell me something by e-mail that I think would be of use to others, I always get their permission **before** I ever pass that e-mail on.    I can not think of a single time that I have not done this.    

-    If it ends up for one reason or another that I can't get their permission to directly pass on their e-mail, I **may** pass some very general information ( that is based on what the public may has access to ), but more likely I will pass on contact information, so that the person I am talking to, can try and get it directly from the source.


As it is, all I can say that I did not do it, but there is never any possible way I could prove it, as no one can ever prove a negative.


I do ask you to consider these facts - 

The list archives are open for anyone in the world to see, and if you are Googling " Terra Preta ", sooner or later you will find this list, and it's archives ( it's the Terrapreta list archives that I found while Googling charcoal and Terra Preta as separate subjects that allowed me find to this forum ) - in all fairness I also ran across the work that Mr. Cox mentions, but, for me it's useable information was scanty at best. 

If you Google ' pressure, kiln, Terra Preta, charcoal ' you will get only about 80 returns, and of those returns, about 5 of them come from this list.    Anytime that more than 5% of a Google search returns a particular web site you know something  is going on-      

***Anyone*** in the world checking out the list, would have sooner or later found the archives and would sooner or later would have seen that post between us.    

***Anyone*** in the world that found the posts in the archives between you and I would have seen our e-mail addresses.

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Again, apology accepted and let there be peace between you and I.


Greg H.

 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nikolaus Foidl 
  To: terrapreta at bioenergylists.org 
  Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 15:22
  Subject: [Terrapreta] FW: Terrapreta Digest, Vol 11, Issue 71


  Dear Greg!

  I did not know that you are an agent for some guys in Hawaii who want to sell me my own development. I thought this is a information transfer list for people interested in Charcoal and Terra Preta and not some obscure 
  Address gathering - sending selling -offers event. If you did gather my address and gave this information to those guys what do I have to expect next year? Somebody trying to sell me fresh air from Bolivia or penis enlargement pills? This is called pishing or worse.
  He mentions your address and pasted a copy of your communication with me in the mail he send me. Please if you where the person getting those people the address then don't do it again.
  Some years ago something similar happened to me in Guatemala. I held a lecture about Biogas and Reactor designs and 7 month later one guy from Guatemala who asked me for an electronic copy of my power point presentation came to Nicaragua, Managua ( my Hometown at that time) and announced with lot of noise a lecture about Biogas and reactor design and I got a personal invitation with reduced entrance fee offer of 300 US$ to hear and see my own power point presentation. That exact feeling i got a moment ago when i got this mail from Hawaii.
  So please keep the list free of sellers what ever they want to sell. If you did not give them my address my deepest apology if wrongly accused.
  Happy New Year to all.
  Nikolaus Foidl
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