Public reply to Don Rosa

[Daniel van Eijmeren]

Dear Don Rosa,

As a proof that I won't ignore you, as you thought. I finally want to 
reply the four unasked emails that you sent me about four years ago. 

I still feel the heart-beat in my throat. Literally. I am really very, 
very scared of you, your friend Dan Shane, other friends, and many of 
your fans. No matter what I try. I can't ignore this fear any longer. 
Everytime I see your work I'm remembered of your abuse of my identity 
and my life on the internet.

I was a big admirer of you, but this really is too much for me to keep 
for myself. 

I won't reply private messages. And essages that scare me in any way,
will be put online promptly by me or my friends.

This email might be followed by grammatical corrections and typos.

Sincerely,

Daniël van Eijmeren (just a reader of your work)

P.S. I will never forgive you that you asked a mutual friend to give 
background information about me, as he reported to me in 1998. That 
was the worst moment in my life.


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Van: Don Rosa <donrosa at iglou.com>
Aan: dve at kabelfoon.nl
Onderwerp: Oops!
Datum: maandag 26 maart 2001 14:59

Whoops! Better be careful what buttons you push there, pal!
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Message: 13
From: "Daniel van Eijmeren" <dve at kabelfoon.nl>
To: <dcml at stp.ling.uu.se>
Subject: Bodyguard?
Date:   Mon, 26 Mar 2001 10:24:52 +0200

Hoi H####,

Rosa krijgt in feite niets anders dan lof op de DCML, maar zodra er
een (1!) uitzondering tussen zit dan denkt Dan Shane dat hij op moet
treden als Rosa's bodyguard door de betreffende persoon grof toe te
spreken en te vernederen. 

Bah! Kinderachtig!


Groetjes,

--- Daniel


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Van: Don Rosa <donrosa at iglou.com>
Aan: dve at kabelfoon.nl
Onderwerp: Not your day!
Datum: maandag 26 maart 2001 21:18

Monday just wasn't your day! One of Dan's coworkers happens to be Dutch.
Ergo:
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Rosa receives in fact nothing but honor on the DCML, but as soon as there
is
one exception, Dan Shane thinks he has to act as Rosa's bodyguard by
talking
badly to and humiliating the concerning person.
Yuk! Childish!
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It's still a mystery to all of us as to why you so *resent* my existence
that you hate to see me defended even from obvious lies that even YOU would
know to be untrue. I think Dan's response to that oaf was very mild -- he
only let the clod's own language skills speak for themselves, and made NO
other personal comments about him, unlike the libelous lies the guy told
about *me*. How can you see anything "childish" or otherwise anything but
NOBLE for a friend to try to defend someone who he sees slandered in
public, especially done at a time when that friend is not there to defend
himself? Your posting your sour reaction to my many friends' support in a
PUBLIC message to the ML strikes me as a "Freudian Slip" -- do you know the
term? You strike me as a lonely, bitter guy...

Well, anyway, now what to do? Your posting of your snide comment about Dan
Shane could only have been a very careless blunder. So I don't think I have
a right to publicly demand an apology for your hitting the wrong computer
key. Your private opinions are none of my business, even though this one
was made quite public. And another aspect of the matter is that it was in
Dutch which few ML members can read. We assume.
So, if you are an honorable person, I suggest you post an apology to the ML
for that snide remark again IN DUTCH. That way, your blunder will still be
a secret from the majority of the list, and your apology will only be read
by those who could read your original message. If you have honor, this you
will do. And if you do, we will let the matter drop and not another word
will be said.
You can't ask for more fairness than that, eh?


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Van: Don Rosa <donrosa at iglou.com>
Aan: dve at kabelfoon.nl
Onderwerp: ?
Datum: woensdag 28 maart 2001 14:52

I assume you're working on your Dutch apology for the ML? I hope so. If it
doesn't appear soon, you'll leave me no choice but to post a rebuttal in
English (since I do not know Dutch) that will not say very nice things
about you and your strange neurosis, and will naturally unavoidably require
me to translate what you wrote into English. I'm trying to help you avoid
that, but since friends need defending (even though you neurotically
consider that "childish") you'll leave me no choice.
I assume you see all those other loyal and selfless (to you, "childish")
friends defending me in the ML, as did Dan? I know how that must burn you
up, since you want nothing more than to see me publicly attacked. I don't
know how you allowed your willing association and cooperation with the
so-called "Carl Barks Studio" taint your brain, but you'll eventually
discover, to your disgust (as it was to theirs), that I *am* just as
sincere and generous and hardworking and unceasingly devoted to Barks'
Ducks and his and my fans as everyone says I am. Sorry if that seems to
spoil your day so much, but you'd better get over it.

And get to work on the Dutch apology. Time's running out. I don't allow my
friends do go undefended for long.


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Van: Don Rosa <donrosa at iglou.com>
Aan: dve at kabelfoon.nl
Onderwerp: You're a marvel
Datum: woensdag 28 maart 2001 22:16

You poor, poor kid. You were too rude to answer my messages, and too stupid
to take my advice on the easiest, least embarrassing way to get out of
this. You're your own worst enemy.
Sorry, I "disapprove" of your apology. Now I must take my turn at bat.
Why don't we just take a vow to ignore each other forever? Can we do that?
Or do you want to keep going through all this on a regular basis?
Yes, I know, you'll ignore this message, too.


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