Eileen wrote:
> On Sep 20, 10:24 am, AKogler wrote:
>> On Sep 19, 12:27 pm, Eileen wrote:
>>
>>> http://www.ultimatedressage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=168991
>>> The mind boggles.
>> It boggles so much that I have to wonder if it isnt a hoax of some
>> kind. If it is true, and it is really from the Parellis, its beyond
>> anything! Think of the liability this opens them up to. How could they
>> be so stupid on so many levels.
> > My understanding from the BB I pulled this from was that a poster
> contacted them and was told that was their position.
> Not that I did this myself, but, that person reported that she was
> emailed that this was a real letter and their real position. I’d not
> have reposted here if someone had not tried to see if it were true and
> reported back that it was.
The Devil’s Advocate in me notices:
The poster on UD has been there for a long time (since 2001) with thousands of posts. However what she posted was from an unknown Patti, and “Forwarded from another list.” We don’t know anything about Patti, who actually claimed to participate in this email discussion with “the Faculty, Parelli Centers”. While it’s certainly possible this is a real email exchange, it would be a good idea to try to track down Patti and verify that this is a real person – not a troll.
I’m not a member of UD and I’m not interested enough in doing this to jump thru the hoops to join and email the poster (Quelah) to ask how to get in touch with Patti to verify the story. If someone else who is an UD member is willing to do this, that would be nice. If there’s a journalist lurking, I think this would make a great article – either verifying or debunking this letter and then publishing it in any magazine that doesn’t take advertising from Parelli (those who take his advertising aren’t likely to want to publish a story on this topic, no matter if the letter is true or not).
I tried finding the author (Patti W.WA) by googling[1]. All I find is the repost “forwarded from another list” (or forum) over and over. The source list changes, one time it was a Welsh Mountain Pony list, another time it was a driving list but of course either of those could have been forwarded from yet another list or forum!
jc
[1] Google’s search[2] is starting to really suck. If I google just on Patti I find very little. If I add in a phrase from the email, I’ll find some posts. If I add in a *different* phrase from the email, I find NEW posts – posts that should have been found with the first search since all of the pages have the exact same letter text on them. Here’s what I found so far:
http://www.ultimatedressage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=168991
http://www.flahorse.com/forums/showthread.php?t=22194
http://www.horsechitchat.com/equineforums/barnyard/2403-never-ceases-amaze-me.html
http://www.chronicleforums.com/Forum/showthread.php?t=224279
http://www.horseforum.com/natural-horsemanship/parelli-helmets-36285/
[2] I even tried bing.com – they can’t find any of these posts by searching on “Patti W.WA”. The only matches they have are for a testimonial for a carpet store. It looks like Bing’s search database is stale – it’s from Microsoft so I’m not really surprised. :-)
I tried Yahoo, they found just one of the 5 links Google found.
I tried Dogpile, a meta search engine that searches other search sites – it didn’t find even all the 5 links above with any of 3 or 4 different search strings and queries.