What he failed to realize is that instead of only a few hundred people seeing my responses here to his personal attacks on me, his outrageous and malicious attempt to interfere with our ability to communicate with fans around the world has backfired on him. You have to remember we have had contact with tens of thousands of fans. (There have been 1.4 MILLION visits to The Jim Reeves Way over the years). We've kept track of our interaction with Jim's fans by keeping copies of emails, we have thousands of people who have signed up for our two mailing lists, and we have a customer base. What started out as a hobby years ago has grown to be a globally interactive community of like-minded individuals who love Jim Reeves' music and are eager to hear more of it. We are in the center of it all -- not some webmaster in Holland who hosts many of the personal attacks against us.
Julie and I have heard from many of you and know you are offended by and deeply resentful of the cheap shots some take at us, and especially the attempts to discredit my book or interfere with the release of new music by Jim.
But these cyberstalkers live in their own little universe and are oblivious to all this. They fail to comprehend that no other Jim Reeves website can compete with ours or has as much credibility or outreach. And it continues to grow because every product my UK partner sells that I have produced -- ranging from CDs to DVDs -- has this web address and my book listed in it. And then there's the worldwide press coverage that has accrued to us, both print and broadcast, that even my harassers have jealously taken note of.
So the puerile attacks on us by some of the loonies on the fringes of the Reeves fan scene who habitually try to stir up trouble and even attempted this week to get us kicked offline, can and will be simply dealt with by our directly emailing our new newsletter to a sizable audience far beyond those who might by happenstance see our comments here.
We have every right to defend ourselves against scurrilous attacks and we will do so by the most effective means at our disposal.
The people who have been so obsessed with hating me for so many years just because I acquired Reeves items they wanted to get their hands on and hoard, etc. would do well to remember the old proverb that when you try to ride the back of a tiger you are likely to end up inside.
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