[thelist] WEBMASTER OF PLANET TOLKIEN

Wow.  A nice, humble apology.  I like that.  You just earned my respect.
:-)

Sincerely,
  Dan Bailey
  Mindwired Web Creations
  www.mindwired.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Planet Tolkien [mailto:planet_tolkien@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 4:00 PM
To: thelist@lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] WEBMASTER OF PLANET TOLKIEN


Hello all.
I am the Webmaster of Planet Tolkien, I say that now whilst bowing my head. 
I have spent the past hour reading all your threads from the past day or 
maybe two on the Evolt mailing list - As to get the whole grasp of all your 
feeling towards me.
Some of you may not have had the reply's I have been sending to those who 
emailed me. But this is what happened:

I went to stay with my mum for a while as my dad was going on holiday. So as

to get a week away from my site (As it takes all my time up and I was 
getting stressed, only being 17). I let my Brother look after it as he said 
he was capable, and I stupidly believed this to be true. To cut a very long 
story short he deleted the old green design by accident and uploaded / 
copied your site with my content in it to replace it. Not only did he do 
this but also he posed as me in the main boards and forums asking ppl what 
they thought of it. I did ring him up from where I was staying (In the 
country with no computer) and he told me that a virus chewed up the site and

that he created a new temporary design. Thinking all to be okay I left it at

that. Came back from a reasonably stress relief break and was embraced with 
about 30+ emails, some very abusive and some polite...both being 
understandable.

I can say no more than I am disgraced, sorry and annoyed. Annoyed with my 
brother (step). Disgraced with myself and sorry to the whole Evolt community

for insulting all web site designers. My one goal in life (still having many

being young) is to be a web designer. I hang out with them, live with 
one...and read about them every day (webmonkey and so forth). And now my 
whole life seems to have been swooped away by a family member? Well maybe I 
have done something wrong somewhere along the line and this is my payback.

Either way I take full responsibility for his actions and have posted an 
apology on my site, deleted every page except the main one on the server. 
And plead with you to forgive me, as I really did not mean for any of this 
to happen.

Deeply regretful and apologetic.

Tarrant Costelloe (Taz) - Webmaster of Planet Tolkien

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