Correspondance with a Wannabe-Diva

We followed up with our favorite hack gossip columnist -- See what she's saying now!
For Past Correspondance

Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 15:01:16 -0500 (EST)
To: diva@metaverse.com
Subject: your column

You claim you update your site each weekday, and yet you only wrote ten
columns in October, a month that contained 22 weekdays....could you
explain how you justify the false advertising?

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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:14:14 -0500 (EST)
From: Jill T. Stempel 
Subject: The Sleaze lives on!!  

Hey Guys!

First off, apologies for the bulk e-mail thing.  I am writing all of you
in
particular because you wrote to me over the last week wondering what the
hell had happened to CyberSleaze.  You all voiced your support for the
site
and were wondering why it wasn't getting posted regularly anymore.

I don't know if you have check out the lastest Sleaze yet, but if you have
then you know that the reason CyberSleaze was delayed last week was that I
was getting my own,  seperate site up and running at www.thesleaze.com

Basically, I love writing CyberSleaze for YOU GUYS the fans, but my
experience with the people who currently produce the site has not been a
happy one, therefore I am taking my talent and my fans and moving on!!
The
new site, will have the same sort of Sleaze written by me that you have
come to know and love but with better-looking website and a search engine
to make past issues more accesible.  It will also be posted DAILY every
weekday at a specific time and there will be no technical foul-ups or
unexplained periods of time where the site is mysteriously down.  I think
it will really be an improvement and I know that I will be a much happier
and more reliable Diva now that I will be running the site myself.

I just wanted to thank you all for your readership and support of
CyberSleaze and ask that you check out the new site at www.thesleaze.com
and sign up for the mailing list so that you can be kept posted on all of
the latest developments!!

And again, apologies for the bulk mail.  I was trying to write everyone
personally but it was getting to be impossible.

Look forward to hearing from you and writing more Sleaze for you!!

Cheers!
/Jill "The Diva" Stempel

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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:36:57 -0500 (EST)
To: diva@thesleaze.com
Subject: new site


Do you actually think relating to the world you've burned your bridges
with your former employer to such a severe extent he locked you out of the
site makes you sound good?

What-The-Diva's-In-Violation-Of-Quote-of-the-Day:

 "Although the Commission seeks to foster a national advertising
environment that is both competitive and creative, at the same time, it
requires that all claims be nondeceptive and substantiated. This is true
regardless of whether you use print or broadcast ads or whether you
advertise on the Internet."
  --Commissioner Janet D. Steiger at the Practicing Law Institute's
conference of False Advertising and the Law:Coping with Today's Challenges

So when you claim to post daily and you don't, you are guilty of false
advertising.

Your Dad must be quite confident in your success considering
he busted out for an Internet provider that "proudly serves the
Louisville, Lexington, Cincinnati and Nashville metropolitan areas" and
loads your page in a lightning fast 4 minutes via T1.

Considering these problems, you may want to pay a little more attention to
your dwindling fan base and provide some consistent quality content at a
reasonable speed since it looks like Mr. Curry is the first in a growing
line of people fed up with your bullshit.


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Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 17:28:27 -0500 (EST)
From: Jill The Diva Stempel 
Subject: Re: new site

You obviously do not know what the fuck you are talking about since every
single fact in this e-mail is wrong.

/Jill

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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 08:40:39 -0500 (EST)
To: Jill The Diva Stempel 
Subject: Re: new site

Really?
You don't have this on your website?

ADAM CURRY has decided to make it rather difficult for me to post any
further
gossip on CyberSleaze by locking me out of the site

or this:

you CAN expect (and demand) to see a fresh dose of Sleaze
posted on this space every weekday.

and yet I see no posting for Thursday December 3. So are you arguing the
validity of the law regarding false advertising or are you going to
claim 'daily' has a special meaning just for you?

Your blanket denial suggests Iglou Internet is not your
internet provider.  Are you confused or just giving credit to your friends
again? Or is it just that your Diplomat Daddy doesn't actually pay
for it?

You purport to be intelligent, but the fact is you can't even explain why
you're inconsistent or work as a professional so you fall back on the
childish reaction of
denying everything despite the quite obvious fact you don't
follow through with your claims.


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Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 18:20:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Jill The Diva Stempel 
Subject: Re: new site

A)  Why do you give a shit?
B)   Diplomat daddy has nothing to do with my BUSINESS relationship with
Iglou.  It is a coincidence that they are based in KY.  Ask them if you
don't believe me.
C) My business relationship with Adam from beginning to end is a very
complicated story and one that you obviously do not know anything about so
fuck off.

/J

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Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 11:02:38 -0500 (EST)
To: Jill The Diva Stempel 
Subject: trying to be clear

We work from what you tell us.  You tell us that you're going to update
the site daily.  You didn't post on the 3rd or the 7th.  If you posted
everyday as you claim, there would be no problem.  If you stop claiming
you post it every day, then people won't expect you to.

 So in answer to A)
If your gossip columnist is a liar is there any point in following her
work?

You say Adam locked you out of the site.  The details are insignificant.
We don't particularly care. It doesn't say much about you, that's all.
In the past, you've often neglected your readers.  To learn from your
website that the boss locked you out seems to
confirm the point that others notice this pattern of neglect.

Your server is very slow. This makes it unpleasant for people who visit
the site.  I guess you just don't care ...

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Think Jilly will mail us back?


She hasn't in days, awwwwwwwwwwww.

Let's send more mail!
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 08:23:27 -0500 (EST)
To: diva@thesleaze.com
Subject: new daily sleaze

In case you've forgotten your promises, here they are, gathered directly
from your website.

"I thank you in advance for your patience and I do issue you the
promise that you CAN expect (and demand) to see a fresh dose of Sleaze
posted on this space every weekday."