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On Friday 25 September 2009 22:55:05 Garry Ogle wrote:

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> It makes me wonder what the problem is ( and am I guilty myself? ):

> In an off-list email Dave Philips commented on the lack of feedback he

> receives about his music.

> Bruce McCosar ( whose blog in included in PlanetLinuxMusicians ) once

> wrote that despite having several albums on Jamendo with thousands of

> downloads and tens of thousands of listens he'd received zero feedback.

>

> I've seen over a thousand downloads from my site in the last year ( not

> bad for an amateur-crap-artist who makes no effort to promote himself )

> and I have a big fat contact tab there, but how many people have clicked

> on it? two, and neither of them actually mailed me, not even to slag me

> off!

>

> So I understand why you may be a little dismayed; but as Arnold says,

> checkout your download statistics, and take cold comfort from what is

> written there!

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the paper.

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are very lucky and high above the average rates.
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stopped doing that stuff. For example there are still people using C++2LaTe=

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which I stopped using and developing in 2003...
Have fun,
Arnold
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