Hello Eric, Thank you for your note and explanation on OrganicTrader.net! I've just added a link to your site in a new dynamic area that I've been working on this week... http://buyorganic.org/live Please go there and add a page or two about your site and yourself, if you would. I'm copying this to our small 'friends' mailing list, as a pre-announcement of this new 'wiki' feature, and because your message was quite interesting. (You are most welcome to join the friends list to field questions about your site, or just keep in touch... I would be interested in collaborating with you more closely going forward.) Thanks! -jeb On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:54:19PM -0500, Eric Thurston wrote: > Hi Jeb, > > I especially love your planche on the beach. But I am writing you > because I found you when seeing if a new website I've been working on > this year which is just about finished was coming up in searches on > Google. I was alarmed because you were stating that you had heard of > OrganicTrader via spam and so I clicked thinking someone was spamming > info about my site. > > I am glad to find that you are referring to the mammoth cyber-squatting > mechanism (GlobalOnline) and that the site they were spamming was > OrganicTrader.com. When asking organic growers last year what name they > liked for an organic trading site, just about everything they (or I) > could think of was already taken by GlobalOnline. I e-mailed them why > they had bought up so many names and they stated they would gladly > relinquish the rights to OrganicTrader.com for the "right price." > > Anyway, the site I've been working on is OrganicTrader.net. > > Please come check it out. It is for wholesale buyers and sellers and > there is lots of good info about what we stand for on the site. It > might be useful for your buying club. I expect the number of products > will pick up quite a bit during the coming season. We've had mainly > herbs, grains and dry goods on the site during winter while the site was > getting finished but there are even now some great deals on dates, nuts, > lentils, potatoes, etc. > > Well, that's my invite. Keep up the great site yourself! > > Eric Thurston > Webmaster > http://www.organictrader.net > -- Jeb Bateman... http://jeb.ocha.net
