{"id":3845,"date":"2006-05-24T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-24T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3845"},"modified":"2021-01-12T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T03:14:00","slug":"psycho-hosebeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidmcrampton.com\/?p=3845","title":{"rendered":"Psycho Hosebeast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/beware\/twentyworst.html\">Barbara Bauer<\/a> person is still going about and threatening to sue people for perfectly legal activity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/beware\/twentyworst.html\">Barbara Bauer<\/a> is all whiny that she got listed on the &#8220;Twenty Worst Scammers&#8221; list when it comes to scamming people who want to become authors.  Perhaps, instead, she should <b>STOP SCAMMING WRITERS<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s now <a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/007577.html\">brought down a major forum for up and coming writers<\/a>, called Absolute Write, by making irate phone calls and spewing retarded filth that she thinks are lawyer-speak.  Posting this woman&#8217;s email address on the web, and thereby opening her up to spammers (same email address is readily available at her own website, BTW) does not make the company a spammer.  Nor is spamming made illegal in the DMCA.  Just&#8230; just&#8230; ARGH, JUST STOP SUCKING OUT MY INTELLIGENCE!  You are SCAMMING people.  You were CAUGHT.  SUCK IT UP!  ARGHQ@*)($&amp;@WPODFJDS:8PWJF!one!:LKFDKSJ*STABSTABSTABBITYSTAB*<\/p>\n<p>*breathe*<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/beware\/twentyworst.html\">Barbara Bauer<\/a> is much like those ignorant fools that would call in to tech support and demand that they wouldn&#8217;t have to pay their bills or that we have to Fix It Right Now because they know a lawyer.  I don&#8217;t like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/beware\/twentyworst.html\">Barbara Bauer<\/a> or what she&#8217;s doing.<\/p>\n<p>So I, like many other people, are linking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfwa.org\/beware\/twentyworst.html\">Barbara Bauer<\/a> to the aforementioned Twenty Worst Scammers list, thereby upping Google&#8217;s correlation between that list and her name.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/users.livejournal.com\/batty_\/889623.html&quot;\">Slacktivism<\/a>?  Maybe.  Poetic justice?  Certainly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Barbara Bauer person is still going about and threatening to sue people for perfectly legal activity. 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