Some of my posts slowly collect comments over time. A number of those regard certain companies and scams. I let them live as dialogs for those who are interested in those things.
Somehow, the comment someone posted earlier today on one of my posts from 2007 gets the lucky distinction of being linked back-to by me. It’s probably not good protocol to do this for an anonymous poster, but I don’t think they are posting with any vendetta. Its written as an advertiser (well, someone who is told to advertise with TN).
Basically they are questioning the value of ThomasNet in 2009. Here is a snip:
“They are now a cookie-cutter-web-‘development’ company who simply CANNOT compete against the INTERNET. PERIOD. So, what am I to do? Ever since the massive set of ‘GREEN BOOKS’ arrived each year and the internet was considered a child’s toy- Thomas was the creme de la creme- they had a lock on the ‘yellow pages’ of industry. No longer.”
Maybe they got me nostalgic for the green books. Boy, those were the days. And then the days when they showed up and you never took them out of the boxes.
Anyway, you can read their riff and let me know what you think … about what they have to say, or whether I should be highlighting it.