sam 04/03/20 2:02 am of the top sites:
megagames ok
mame pending
freevote ok
aracdeathome ok
indiamasala gone
somethingaw ok
babynames limbo
teenstation gone
beautifulwallpapers limbo [this guy has like
10 sites and he uses our sites to direct
traffic to his other sites..gabor timis.. we
gotta stop this.. maybe have him throw all his
sites together + noncompete]
emux - no clue
hebus ok
animenetwork ok
bresso -
xaviersite ok
shulu -
skinz - ok
sub-net - will be ok
demonews - ok
rpgamer -?
bryant 04/03/20 2:02 am We cutting full checks for people whose
contract are up and are leaving? Wavplace for
example, we have $3270 on the books for them.
sam 04/03/20 2:02 am thats not bad huh
sam 04/03/20 2:02 am no we cant
sam 04/03/20 2:02 am make it payment plan?
bryant 04/03/20 2:02 am Yep, absolutely. Just wanted to check.
sam 04/03/20 2:02 am or if they want all of it now.. make a deal..
like 50% or less even
bryant 04/03/20 2:02 am Yeah, that's not bad at all. re: RPGamer, I
just got an addendum revision back from his
lawyer. I'll send it to you.
sam 04/03/20 2:03 am or even let them continue maintaining the site
for another 3 month.. and pay them 1123/month
sam 04/03/20 2:13 am forget that.. i'd rather let him walk..
sam 04/03/20 2:13 am what do u think
bryant 04/03/20 2:13 am Hard to say. Decent site, but ugly changes to
the addendum.
bryant 04/03/20 2:19 am I'll ID the issues for him and see what he'll
do. If he can't budge then we'll walk him I
guess.
So obviously theres;
3a - 'ownership of the website shall remain
with the developer'
3c - 'accrue interest at the rate of 12%'
and it needs a paragraph killing the outs he
has.
bryant 04/03/20 2:20 am Anything else?
sam 04/03/20 2:21 am yeah add that paragraph killing his outs too.
sam 04/03/20 2:22 am and make it state of california
sam 04/03/20 2:22 am there's no way we're changing the jurisdiction
to washington
bryant 04/03/20 2:23 am I'm tempted to further mark up the one you
sent me with the out killer and killing the
jurisdictional issue and send that as-is.
Present a problem?
sam 04/03/20 2:23 am no not at all.. i just makred up what i saw
quickly.. keep marking it up.. and do what you
need to do
sam 04/03/20 2:23 am but the out killer.. dont "highlight" that :)
bryant 04/03/20 2:24 am Oh no, just going to quietly replace it with
the 2b he has.
bryant 04/03/20 2:24 am Woops, forgot to redline...
bryant 04/03/20 2:27 am Is it just the compounded monthly part you
want dead, or the whole interest issue?
sam 04/03/20 2:28 am what do u think.. i was trying to do it so
tthere's a balance and we dont cross
everything out
bryant 04/03/20 2:28 am Yeah, I agree.
sam 04/03/20 2:28 am did astalavista sign
sam 04/03/20 2:28 am cuz they still dont have our banners back up..
or maybe waiting for payments?
bryant 04/03/20 2:29 am I think they're waiting for payment.
sam 04/03/20 2:29 am ok ill ask bill
bryant 04/03/20 2:48 am Hey, I just got an ICQ from one of the
Penny-Arcade guys. I guess Jerry never signed
and mailed their release. Is that something
we can get done this week? I'm not even sure
where the release is at this point. Jerry had
it last I knew, but I bet I can track down a
copy in my sent folder.
sam 04/03/20 2:48 am ya send it off to me and i can probably do
that
bryant 04/03/20 2:51 am Just got it off.
sam 04/03/20 3:05 am what was the last offer w/ pcmech.. do u know
sam 04/03/20 3:08 am for rpgamer, the balance we have says 10k
sam 04/03/20 3:08 am how did they get 21k
sam 04/03/20 3:08 am oh i know how.. they didnt put our webguide up
sam 04/03/20 3:08 am i dont think they'll cooperate putting new
stuff up
bryant 04/03/20 3:10 am No, I needed to talk to Brian today anyway, so
I'll get the pcmech offer then. I've got to
sit down with him and get caught up on
everything he was working on and get all his
docs.
sam 04/03/20 3:24 am do u have pcmechs' contract in front of you
bryant 04/03/20 3:24 am The original?
sam 04/03/20 3:24 am i was wondering when it started.. and if it
was a 3 year dea
sam 04/03/20 3:24 am yeah
bryant 04/03/20 3:24 am Yeah
sam 04/03/20 3:24 am im writing back to pcmech.. to see if we can
pull off a hebus-like math
bryant 04/03/20 3:24 am Wait no - that's PCMedia. Don't have PCmech's
sam 04/03/20 3:24 am pcemdia is pcmech
sam 04/03/20 3:24 am same ting
bryant 04/03/20 3:25 am ok, lemme pull it up.
bryant 04/03/20 3:26 am Standard agreement. 3 year term starting
6/9/2000. No outs.
bryant 04/03/20 3:28 am RPGamer just caught the 2b change.
sam 04/03/20 3:30 am well tell him he made changes..and we made
change
sam 04/03/20 3:36 am cc:d you on the pcmech email.. tell me what u
think
sam 04/03/20 5:07 am hey do you know much about john graham's
skills..just going through the employee list
sam 04/03/20 3:02 pm fyi..i think marc F. is waiting for the newly
revised addendum or something
bryant 05/03/20 7:45 am Seems Jarret isn't so friendly after all.
sam 05/03/20 7:52 am jarret..yeh he's a snake ..always pullsthe
switcharoo on u
bryant 05/03/20 7:52 am Yann Stettler is a real problem child too.
bryant 05/03/20 7:53 am There are quite a few people trying to
organize others.
sam 05/03/20 7:53 am stettler's contract expired i think
sam 05/03/20 7:53 am who's trying to organize?
bryant 05/03/20 7:53 am Yann at least is conservative. He just wants
to get people together to come to us and
demand more communication. Jarret is trying
to rabblerouse for the sake fo doing damage.
bryant 05/03/20 7:53 am I'll gather some names.
bryant 05/03/20 7:53 am Jarret for sure. I sent you his post.
sam 05/03/20 7:54 am we shouldkill his account access immediately.
bryant 05/03/20 7:55 am These people have such a deranged concept of
how the law works it scares me. What's worse
is they declare these concepts as fact and
other people eat it up. It's genuinely
frightening. Never seen so much stupidity.
It's really like watching a herd of angry
sheep. None of them know exactly why they're
so worked up and none of them will stand out
alone - but they're mad anyway.
bryant 05/03/20 7:57 am Scott Bedard is calling for an organized
effort but doesn't want to be leader, Jarret
is openly saying he's ready to lead a "union"
against us, "Dietrich" is suggesting they all
pull banners at the same time and put
disparaging comments up about us to force us
into bankruptcy and embarass us.
bryant 05/03/20 7:59 am Actually, "Dietrich" says he doesn't support
that - but he's still suggesting it.
bryant 05/03/20 8:01 am "J.B." from Emuplayer is supporting Yann on
more constructive approaches. He feels (as do
some others) that eF succeeding is them
succeeding. Healthy attitude.
sam 05/03/20 8:05 am we should stop killing their account access
for violating the nondisclosure what do u
think
sam 05/03/20 8:06 am and tell them individually we have a record of
everyone who's violating it
bryant 05/03/20 8:06 am At some point we do need to start identifying
problem children and separating them from the
flock. Don't mean kicking them out per se,
but make ourselves clear nonetheless.
sam 05/03/20 8:06 am we should probably do that sooner rather than
latter
bryant 05/03/20 8:06 am The more I read from Yann, the more
conservative I find him. I don't think he's
one of the problem people at all.
sam 05/03/20 8:07 am do we even have a problem with him? his
contract expired.. just work out where he
works for 4-5 months and we pay his backpay
off?
bryant 05/03/20 8:07 am I doubt it. He's just talking about wanting
better communication. He doesn't seem bitter
at all.
sam 05/03/20 8:08 am marc said 5-6 are ready to sign..he just needs
the addendum
bryant 05/03/20 8:08 am Yeah, sent them once but the emails bounced.
Servers been flakey recently. I'll send them
again tonight.
bryant 05/03/20 8:09 am I get a lot of ppl telling me stuff to me
bounces periodically as well. Not sure what's
up.
sam 05/03/20 8:09 am should i tell scott we're going to terminate
his access or should you
bryant 05/03/20 8:09 am Bedard?
sam 05/03/20 8:09 am or what do u suggest
sam 05/03/20 8:09 am yeah
sam 05/03/20 8:10 am and the addendums does have it so that they
say they are signing this voluntarily, etc. so
they cant get us for duress because of that
bryant 05/03/20 8:10 am Lemme talk to him some more and see what he
has to say. The thing about these folks is
they're friendly in direct convos, but them
turn around and cause problems. A little
annoying.
sam 05/03/20 8:12 am scott/gr took our banners off already
basically, we have to tell him.. yes we're
late in payments to buy the assets..which
means we're in default and we have to work out
a settlement. yet, you are violating the
nondisclosure clause, which we take seriously
and at this point, we have no choice but to
terminate your access and possibly bringing
the site down until the issue is resolved
sam 05/03/20 8:20 am anyone else close to signing the contracts
soon?
sam 05/03/20 8:26 am we're very close to terminating your service
agreement due
to not servicing the site appropriate,
ignoring
the non-competes, and causing irreparable
harm
by ignoring the non-disclosure..
i'm about to send that to scott
sam 05/03/20 9:56 am i think i have an idea for the whining
webmasters..
sam 05/03/20 10:01 am i think i reached a deal with indianmasala
sam 05/03/20 10:15 am marc is msging me he didnt get the addendum..
should i send it to him since your email is
aving problems? do you have a latest
addendum.. or should i send him what i have
sam 05/03/20 10:15 am Marc: he might be sending it to
marc@efront.com which is not my addy
sam 05/03/20 10:15 am marcd@efront.com
is the right addresss
sam 05/03/20 10:48 am any luck on Johan?
sam 05/03/20 11:16 am maybe you can give me an update on which
webmaster you're having trouble with on
terms.. and i can step in and help.. i got
indianmasala.com almost worked out
sam 05/03/20 11:50 am i think it would be best if you let jarret
walk
sam 05/03/20 11:50 am we have too much celebrity traffic as it is
sam 05/03/20 11:50 am his traffic has little value to us
bryant 05/03/20 11:59 am Well, walk or no. He seems to have people
gathering around him. Scott Bedard has told
people you're on him about breach of
contract/disclosure btw.
bryant 05/03/20 12:01 pm You really need to read this latest post. Did
you get the others I sent you?
sam 05/03/20 12:01 pm yes i did
bryant 05/03/20 12:02 pm I'll forward this one then. It's a real
problem. Jarret's up on a soapbox and people
are following him. Something is going to have
to be done.
sam 05/03/20 12:03 pm im sure he's whining about us breaching
contract and pointing out that he is doing
that too
bryant 05/03/20 12:03 pm He's going to talk to dblclick to negotiate a
large deal for as many webmasters as will
follow. They'll all cut all our stuff off,
and as many of them that have control over
their domain names are going to put in
redirects.
sam 05/03/20 12:03 pm haha.. good luck :)
sam 05/03/20 12:03 pm i wish it was that easy
bryant 05/03/20 12:03 pm I think he's actually breaking the law right
now.
bryant 05/03/20 12:04 pm Not sure though.
sam 05/03/20 12:04 pm well, what do you recommend for all this?
bryant 05/03/20 12:04 pm Directly interfering with our capacity to
conduct business.
bryant 05/03/20 12:04 pm Do we have access to a lawyer?
sam 05/03/20 12:04 pm yes we do
sam 05/03/20 12:04 pm we can havre a conf. call w/ you tuesday @
930am
sam 05/03/20 12:04 pm hows that
sam 05/03/20 12:04 pm or too late?
bryant 05/03/20 12:04 pm I think that's a good idea.
bryant 05/03/20 12:05 pm Hmm, he has an addendum.
bryant 05/03/20 12:05 pm Hasn't faxed though.
sam 05/03/20 12:05 pm who does
bryant 05/03/20 12:05 pm Jarret
bryant 05/03/20 12:05 pm Just looking at his status.
sam 05/03/20 12:06 pm does he say he doesnt?
sam 05/03/20 12:06 pm oh ok
bryant 05/03/20 12:06 pm He under 18?
sam 05/03/20 12:06 pm yes he was
bryant 05/03/20 12:06 pm Know if he still is?
sam 05/03/20 12:06 pm i think he might still be
bryant 05/03/20 12:06 pm That would help us I think.
bryant 05/03/20 12:06 pm Makes his parents liable for his actions.
bryant 05/03/20 12:07 pm Good way to put the fear of death in him. If
we can talk to the lawyer tomorrow that's even
better. He has people who have been more than
happy to work with me getting behind him.
bryant 05/03/20 12:07 pm I wouldn't say anything to him for the time
being.
bryant 05/03/20 12:08 pm Going to be interesting to see how people I
talk to respond to me tomorrow.
sam 05/03/20 12:10 pm oh i see jarret's post.. yeah
sam 05/03/20 12:10 pm im not worried bout the boycott.. probably
good
sam 05/03/20 12:10 pm reduces our exposure and payment liabilities
sam 05/03/20 12:11 pm and puts more pressure on them since they wont
be able to cut deals w/ anyone in this market
sam 05/03/20 12:11 pm bryant: Good way to put the fear of death in
him. If we can talk to the lawyer tomorrow
that's even better. He has people who have
been more than happy to work with me getting
behind him.
[how do u mean he has poeople who have been
more than happy to work..]
sam 05/03/20 12:14 pm ohhh ok i see
sam 05/03/20 12:15 pm maybe i can get tim eckel to post up there
bryant 05/03/20 12:30 pm Just meant that people I'm actively working
deals with are chiming in saying they're
behind him on this. I'm just looking forward
to seeing how they respond to me tomorrow. I
don't intend to let them know I'm watching.
bryant 05/03/20 12:30 pm Actually, there are already voices of reason.
Skyler for example.
sam 05/03/20 12:33 pm i have indianmasala almost wrapped up
sam 05/03/20 12:33 pm i'd like to get freevote.com signed up asap
sam 05/03/20 12:33 pm i hope nate is transferring that server
bryant 05/03/20 12:35 pm He just wants to be free of the site, so I
don't think he's going to be a real problem -
unless of course people get him all worked up.
sam 05/03/20 12:36 pm i just send nate a msg on the status of the
move. anyway you can draft the release/waiver
and we can get it out to fv.com and part of
that would say immediately, we're taking over
all bills, etc
sam 05/03/20 12:36 pm i already got someone to run the site/ answer
abuse, etc, @ 200/month
sam 05/03/20 12:37 pm whatever happened w/ classical.net
sam 05/03/20 12:38 pm looks like he took all the banners off
sam 05/03/20 12:51 pm i like the doubleclick approach jarret is
taking..
at least he's not talking legal action.. and
he'll soon see that dblclick or anyone else
wont accept new business
doubleclick actually sent us a 90 day
termination notice on the old contract a few
weeks ago.. we'll be able to re-up though..
probalby on terms favorable to them
sam 05/03/20 1:26 pm oh ya.. any word on the addendum? do u know if
u revised anything after i sent it to u.. (so
i can send marc the latest one)
sam 05/03/20 9:37 pm u therE?
bryant 05/03/20 11:38 pm What's up?
sam 05/03/20 11:38 pm i was going to send an email to the
yahoogroups
sam 05/03/20 11:38 pm can you proofread it
bryant 05/03/20 11:39 pm Sure.
bryant 05/03/20 11:39 pm So we have someone who is English/French
fluent?
sam 05/03/20 11:41 pm alex.. why?
bryant 05/03/20 11:45 pm Hebus is asking for a french translation of
some of the paragraphs all of a sudden.
sam 05/03/20 11:46 pm tell him we don't have the resources to do
that?
sam 05/03/20 11:46 pm alex is online if you like.. i can give you
his icq
bryant 05/03/20 11:46 pm ok cool
sam 05/03/20 11:48 pm ok i sent you the email
sam 06/03/20 12:02 am what do u think? any changes? will this help
you in the negotiations? or hurt?
bryant 06/03/20 12:02 am optimus-prime isn't responding to me, so I
haven't been able to pull it down yet.
bryant 06/03/20 12:06 am Yeah, I think that will help a lot.
sam 06/03/20 12:06 am no changes needed?
bryant 06/03/20 12:06 am I don't think so.
sam 06/03/20 12:18 am yahoo gruops bounced the email back
sam 06/03/20 12:19 am should i sent it to everyone through bcc or
ask skyler to distribute it?
bryant 06/03/20 12:19 am Maybe BCC then.
sam 06/03/20 12:20 am i was thinking if we put it on yahoogroups..
people have to respond to that directly..
instead of thinking we're not there and
attacking in open forum
sam 06/03/20 12:20 am did you notice that noone replied to joann'as
newsletter
bryant 06/03/20 12:20 am Yep.
bryant 06/03/20 12:21 am That's true.
sam 06/03/20 12:21 am so what do u think.. bcc or send to skyler to
post?
sam 06/03/20 12:21 am ill just send to skyler :)
bryant 06/03/20 12:21 am I think either way, but I think you're right
about making it completely obvious we're on
the forums is probably a good thing.
bryant 06/03/20 12:21 am Yeah.
bryant 06/03/20 12:52 am Looks like Hebus is not going to sign.
bryant 06/03/20 12:53 am Looks like quite a few people that were going
to FAX no longer intend to.
sam 06/03/20 1:10 am because of the email we sent?
bryant 06/03/20 1:10 am No idea why.
bryant 06/03/20 1:10 am I can't imagine because of the email.
bryant 06/03/20 1:11 am I suppose it's probably because of convos
they're having amongst themselves.
sam 06/03/20 1:11 am well what option do they have
sam 06/03/20 1:12 am i think everyone was invited to the webmaster
egroup from the newsletter emails or
something.. not sure
bryant 06/03/20 1:12 am Not sure.
bryant 06/03/20 1:14 am Richard Benson of Freeskills is saying in the
forum that he wants to give up the $, return
options, and take freeskills.com back.
sam 06/03/20 1:14 am NO WAY
sam 06/03/20 1:14 am thats not a settlement
sam 06/03/20 1:15 am his contract gives us the right to sell
freeskills and we'll do that
sam 06/03/20 1:15 am oops didnt mean caps:)
bryant 06/03/20 1:15 am He's only putting that in the forum to cause
problems.
sam 06/03/20 1:15 am plus we dont negotiate in a forum
bryant 06/03/20 1:15 am He already told everyone you said we could
sell it.
sam 06/03/20 1:15 am sure..
sam 06/03/20 1:16 am i wouldnt worry about him right now
sam 06/03/20 1:16 am lets just sign up one at a time
sam 06/03/20 1:16 am so hebus is dead? do you have his icq
bryant 06/03/20 1:16 am Yep, that's how we're working.
bryant 06/03/20 1:16 am 6299019
sam 06/03/20 1:17 am btw, working out a settlement doesnt mean
giving the site back.. we should ask for the
payments we made to them or soemthing as well
bryant 06/03/20 1:17 am Yep, I'm not telling anyone out is an option.
I'm also not saying that it's not.
bryant 06/03/20 1:18 am I've had ppl ask for the sake of posting in
the eGroup - just not answering.
bryant 06/03/20 1:18 am There's no good answer to that.
sam 06/03/20 1:26 am who is this pierre guy
bryant 06/03/20 1:26 am Not sure.
sam 06/03/20 1:27 am hebus has no issues.. we need to tweak his
agreement a little
sam 06/03/20 1:28 am btw, can you check hebus's agreement.. does it
have an out clause of any kind
sam 06/03/20 1:30 am also we dont have a payment problem with
richard
sam 06/03/20 1:30 am from freeskills
sam 06/03/20 1:30 am we're on schedule
sam 06/03/20 1:35 am btw, do you know who posted the email to
yahooegroups?
sam 06/03/20 1:58 am my email was bad i think
too many choices for people now :(
sam 06/03/20 2:10 am for jarret, we need to have someone complain
about his copyright pictures.. and we can then
issue him a 24 hour notice to take the
pictures down or we have to shut the site off