COME ON GUYS!! I have no idea what is really going on!! BUT please stop all the way around.Jim why don't you just talk to Heather? The rest of us can just be left out of it.I am sure not to be the only one feeling uncomfortable..... Tina Travis 636-459-8930 Elkhorn Alpacas
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From: "Patricks' Pastures" <jpatrick@airmail.net>
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Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 09:59:36 -0500
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Cc: Allison Moss-Fritch<aemoss17@comcast.net>; Hull, Steve<steve@timberlakefarms.net>
Subject: RE: [AlpacaTalk] AlpacaMarket joins UAFF family of sites
Heather,
Please contact Allison Moss-Fritch for further information on your personal situation. She is the moderator of the site you referenced. It is not our practice to comment on individual situations in a public forum.
The best to you.
Kindest personal regards,
Jim Patrick
214-505-0754
Denton, TX
jpatrick@airmail.net
patrickspastures@verizon.net
jim.patrick@patrickspastures.com
From: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AlpacaTalk@yahoogroupscom] On Behalf Of Heather Zeleny
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:05 AM
To: AlpacaTalk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AlpacaTalk] AlpacaMarket joins UAFF family of sites
And now I am no longer a member of Alpaca Market. It does not show on my list of Yahoo groups at all, and not because I unsubscribed.
Thanks for validating my concerns, Jim Patrick et al. Were my concerns valid or not? Please feel free to address these issues and explain what has happened in an open and free community. There is no thought control on AlpacaTalk or censorship. Only one member was ever moderated for aggressive and continuous defamation. Not something as benign as expressing concern over something that could occur... which appears to have occurred.
Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece
On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Heather Zeleny wrote:
Just don't raise concerns over the consolidation of ownership and control of all of these groups, or you will immediately lose posting privileges.
If it was a mistake, please fix it. If not, feel free to explain why one sentence deserves such draconian measures?
Holistic Farm and Elite Fleece
On Mar 9, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Patricks' Pastures wrote:
We are pleased to announce that AlpacaMarket will shortly become party of the UAFF family of sites. It will operate in harmony with the current UTP site.
UAFF is honored to continue on as moderators. We will acknowledge Erin as the founder of the site on every post.
For those of you that don't know, Erin was at the forefront of AOBA as
Vice President when some very important decisions were made. The
positive effects of those decisions continue to benefit alpaca owners to this day.
We thank Erin McCarthy, the founder of AlpacaMarket,for her confidence in UAFF and we trust that we will live up to her high standards.
We also are pleased to announce that Allison Moss-Fritch, a long time alpaca owner, lawyer and former judge (that is a real judge, not an alpaca judge) will be moderating the AlpacaMarket site as she does for UTP. She also co-moderates the main UAFF site with Jan Davis. This will transpire as Erin turns the site over.
UAFF
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