Klarinet Archive - Posting 000632.txt from 2001/05

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Who reads our messages? ANYBODY
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 03:47:41 -0400

At 08:12 AM 5/25/2001 -0500, Oliver Seely wrote:
>A couple of times a year I use Google to search on the keyword "Oliver
>Seely" just to keep myself abreast of what's out there with my name on it.
>If I found something professionally embarrassing or libelous I'd have to
>decide what the next step ought to be. Thankfully, that has never
>happened. 99% of all the stuff I find was created by me. Part of my good
>fortune in this matter is doubtless due to my rule never to post anything
>for which I can't offer a reasoned defense AND which I wouldn't mind seeing
>put on page A1 of the morning newspaper.

The official name for this is a "vanity search." It is interesting what
you can find sometimes, though! It does somehow validate a person,
reinforcing for them the concept that they really DO exist and affect the
world, however slightly.

Bill Hausmann bhausmann1@-----.com
451 Old Orchard Drive http://homepages.go.com/~zoot14/zoot14.html
Essexville, MI 48732 ICQ UIN 4862265

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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