"Michael(tm) Smith" <smith@xml-doc.org> writes:
> Nick May <nick@kyushu.com> writes:
>
> > Good gracious - you DO need a lot of nurse-maiding!
> >
> > >> ... and the site loses money hand over fist,
> > >
> > > Care to cite some source for that info? Provide any real data? I
> > > have a hard time quantifying "hand over fist".
> >
> > Er - it is precisely because of the absence of quantified data that
> > the term "hand over fist" was used. But -- the website is still
> > losing money - quite a lot - according to my source and no - I am not
> > going to tell you who they are. So take it or leave it.
>
> I'll leave it, thanks. I don't usually put much stock in hearsay.
> (And maybe it's just me, but I personally don't think it's a
> particularly good thing to make unfounded statements about the
> financial health of another business on a public mailing list. For
> one thing, what the hell is the point of it?)
Nick, I wrote that before I read the other follow-up messages you
posted with the links to statements about the Guardian financial
data. So please ignore the above. I'll shut up about this now.
--Mike
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Received on Thu Dec 29 19:43:05 2005