Hello Group :)

About a week ago I asked members of the group to visit my beekeeping website
for beginners and students at www.beemaster.com/honeybee/beehome.htm and
many of you wrote back notifying me that I had sent the message in HTML
format. I appologize for the error, I have never been part of a discussion
group before and I needed to work some kinks out.

Briefly, my site is 50+ pages, 20+ topics and 200+ photos all related to
beekeeping and again, is targeted at new-comers to this wonderful
hobby/profession of Beekeeping. My full site's homepage www.beemaster.com
greatly expands my different hobbies and interests, but my real goal is to
promote Beekeeping from a Hobbyist point of view.

Today, I received an email that trashed my entire site for a few spelling
errors. The writer said "How can we take you serious when you have spelling
errors on your site?". My reply is two-fold.

1) The term "Beemaster" is a domain name - short and simple. I am a hobbyist
with a strong passion to promote beekeeping thru an easy to navagate and
entertaining format. I have spent nearly 5 years creating and updating my
site and currently have over 1900 people around the globe following my 2001
Monthly Newsletter and I receive nearly 200 emails daily.

March issue of my Newsletter www.beemaster.com/honeybee/news0301.html starts
an interactive project where ( from scratch ) my growing newsletter list of
followers ( many of whom are NOT beekeepers, they are students, teachers,
children, parents, etc.. )and have never before been exposed to beekeeping,
now have a chance to see a Season in the life of a New Colony from a
hobbyist prospective.

2) I have nothing to sell, no ads of any kind and I don't feel my site
deserves trashing because of a few spelling errors that are easily
corrected. This narrow minded person could not see my site for it's content
and was upset at the term Beemaster.

I know most of you are serious and committed beekeepers and processors and I
think of all of you as beemasters. But I also know that Beekeeping has room
for anyone with passion to see the honeybee flurrish.

I ask the group again ( now that I think I have the HTML thing solved ) to
please check out my Beekeeping site and Newsletter. I appriciate any
feedback from the group. But please, view the content and value of the site
and DON'T get petty on a few spelling errors, I believe most of you can see
beyond such petty and correctable mistakes.

Repectfully,

John Clayton
Lakehurst, NJ