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Originally Posted by CRussel
Ah, Hitch. I feel your pain, truly. As someone who deals with (l)users on a daily basis, I totally get it.
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Five
YEARS. Like...really?
The part that slays me is the "I'm not paying any more..." Hey. I'm
not the one who made up a boxcar-full of edits, by god. Do we do text edits, by the client, for freebs? Hells, no, we do not. (We include ~20-30 minutes of free "edits"--which is only about 5 text edits, believe it or not, in our base price. And truthfully, I rarely invoice if they have <10. But 40? 50? 100? Oh, yes, we charge, nefarious capitalistic bastards that we are.)
Oish. Five years. Although, this only leaves one other book now, in our PM system, that old. We only have one other client that has had a book...uh...marinading, that long, with us.
FIVE. YEARS.
Spoiler:
Here's an unrelated ranty-thing: a user posting under an assumed name/psuedonym/avatar, at another forum, is accusing all the members there of "slandering" him. Yeah, yeah, already pointed out that slander is oral, not written, but here's the thing, legally--CAN you libel someone who is posting anonymously? Pseudonymously? Legally?
This person is insisting that he was "in publishing" for 27 years, and therefore, knows everything, positively everything, better than everyone (yes, everyone!) else. When he said he was being slandered...well, I couldn't really let THAT go, could I? Someone who was in publishing, for nearly three decades, doesn't know that slander and libel aren't the same thing? Hmmm...I'm smellin' limburger here. I believe that the besmirching of the good name of X, is a requisite element of the case. Thoughts? I think it's impossible to defame an anonymous or pseudonymous person. Or an imaginary one. Whichever.
Hitch