Whew! What a thread! I can't remember a thread this long in a long, long
time. But, it has been entertaining, educational and quite revealing.

In view of it, I think a lot of really fine turners may now think twice
about the collections they allow their work into, and subsequently, their
names and reputations associated with. Getting your work into yet another
"collection" may not always be a "good thing".

Given it's current quality, my work may never make it into any "collection",
unless it's my wife's, which is located on top of our refrigerator.

Sometimes, even when people ask quite straight forwardly for "constructive
criticism", all they really want is blathering adoration. Things may not
always be what they appear to be.

As for me, I'll take my leave now. I thought this thread would have died a
natural death long before now, so let me do my part towards that end.

Barry



"Anonymous" wrote in message
newsan.2005.01.02.06.55.23.106069@notarealserver .com...
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 04:05:31 -0800, Jonathon wrote:



Feedback - so long as it is constructive - welcomed. Any suggestions as
to site enhancement also welcomed. However be warned - flaming will be
posted!

Happy New Year - look forward to seeing some of you during 2005.

Jonathon & Shirley

http://www.thedanielcollection.com
A private collectin of fine turned wood in the UK

The website is visually lavish. The scrolling navigation flies against
convention but isn't terribly hard to learn. It took all of about 30
seconds. It would be helpful to first-time visitors if they were located
somewhere more prominent ... perhaps at the middle of the frame.

The site itself and the full-size pictures are slow to load. On the chance
that the server housing the site is simply swamped at the moment or that
there is some other impediment to fast transmission, I will return in a
day or two. I have 768 / 160K ADSL so it was a surprise to me for the
index page to take a full 30 seconds to resolve.


I don't see or understand what the fuss is about people 'taking' a copy
of one or more photos. Your computer delivered the photos to the United
States and this practice is legal under our laws. What is not legal is for
us to re-distribute them (with or without gain) without accreditation for
incidental use or without permission when the use goes beyond
'incidental'. In other words, I am allowed to retain a copy for my own
use, even printing it out so that I can carry it with me.

I 'took' a copy of two of the pictures for use as desktop backgrounds.
I expect to study them to learn from them and, hopefully, to improve my
own turning. Under our laws regarding copyright, this is permitted. They
will join a photograph of an Irish (my ancestral homeland) sunset and some
pictures from the Hubble space telescope.

If we place your photographs in a book and distribute it without
compensating you, then you have a legitimate complaint. But there really
isn't any foundation for complaint if we take a copy of a photograph for
personal use.

The web site is impressive. Congratulations on a job well done. Comments
about the posting announcing it being spam were ill-considered. The
ensuing debate placed no one in a good light. Hopefully it is over.

Bill

The web sites below are butt-ugly and I have next to no time to improve
them.

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http://cannaday.us (genealogy)
http://organic-earth.com (organic gardening)
Uptimes below for the Linux machines that created / host these sites.
01:18:00 up 1 day, 8:31, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.05
00:59:00 up 241 days, 10:00, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00