To: John and/or moderator(s)
 

To refresh everyone's memory....

John originally posted the following on 01-23-2000 at 01:26 PM on a now-closed thread:

However, we can see on this page down at the bottom that he gives his email address which is precisely the same email address he has previously used to harass multiple individuals, myself included. Following is an excerpt from one of at least 19 emails he's personally sent me from that account:

I'm sure the website quoted above will look familiar to several of us. In the message John posted wherein Hatchett was told he was banned, he was instructed: "Please refrain from attempting to gain further access to greekchat.com - any further abuses of our network will result in complaints being sent to your ISP." It is abundantly clear that he has re-registered on Greekchat (as "Iconoclastic" - check out his profile if you're not yet convinced) in violation of these instructions.

John and/or moderator(s): Please ban Fred from posting here and I request that a complaint be filed with his ISP. The email address he is currently using, incidently, is hatchetf@bellsouth.net. Thanks!

I was thinking this morning that one could conceivably organize a protest against 1stbooks.com for promoting Fred's book. 1st books is a fairly new startup with a clever concept for getting new authors to print. From what I can tell, they make their money based solely on a percentage of books sold.

So this got me thinking. I imagined I was a 1stbooks.com executive. This is my thought process...

I'm a new, fairly hip and cutting edge publishing house trying to sell more books to my target audience: Younger tech-savvy internet consumers, including college students, many of whom happen to be... greek.

And I'm also trying to get new authors to come to 1stbooks.com so I can offer more books and make more money. And new authors are typically college educated, and of course a lot of the people who went to college are also... greek.

I've got this Fred Hatchett book that probably sells like 1 copy a month, so that's worth about $6 a year to me in revenue.

Then I've got the prospect of up to 9 million living greeks boycotting not only this book, but my entire website because of Fred's offensive content and his history of individual harrassment.

Then I also hear that Fred's book may or may not have issues with copyright violation and/or trade secrets in published ritual works.

Hmm. What would YOU do?

You would probably drop Fred's book like a sack of dirt, don't you think?

Greeks have an incredible amount of purchase power. Do we have a collective voice? Who has some spare time on their hands?

wptw

Only John can ban members and this issue has has been brought to his attention.

Laura

Geez...


What is this? 1999?

Dood, were in a time warp or something. Who else could be coming back.....

I see a stuffed owl in everyones future.... lol.

WPTW, only you could come up with such a deveious PLAN!!!!!!!:cool:

You are unto no others for being able to perceive and react to the situation at hand!:)

You got a link to this? Not being lazy, butt my but, oops , is draggin!!!!:)

The crystal ball is hazy but I see...I see some buildings, could they be...trailers?:eek:

:D LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL :D

"Anyone wanna go play b-ball?"
"Yeah, but we ain't got no ball to play with"
"That's aight - we got a few bad checks around here...."

;) ;) :p ;) ;)

Look at AXO. She drove for a while, pulled up in her car, got out, snapped a photo, 'cause she HAD TO GO THERE. hahahahhahah.

I cant believe you said that . lolololo.

<lifesaver grabs his side as he limps away from laughing so hard.>

Re: I never tried to hide!!!
 

wow lifesaver,

did we conjure up the past or something last night? seriously, is there a flux capacitor in your truck and we entered into a timewarp?

Kitso
KS 361 tmes more sense this and other threads make now after gettin the background from lifesaver

Re: I never tried to hide!!!
 

:eek: Just think - he's a published author, folks! :eek:

Re: Re: I never tried to hide!!!
 

I pity the editor that had to work on that book.

Apparently I have been out of the loop- I just got caught up on this whole topic- I had to laugh at this guy's website and it's propaganda.

This is rediculous.