Zündelsite Refusals to Publicly Acknowledge
Nizkor's Open Letter
Here is documentation of the correspondence regarding the request
to cross-link Nizkor's
open letter.
Summary: the Zündelsite says: "I cannot do that at this
time. And I will not address this issue until Ernst Zundel has had a
chance to comment on it." They have had numerous opportunies to
cross-link but have failed to do so, giving only transparent excuses.
Furthermore, they have canceled Nizkor's access to their
"Zundelsite-grams," which they have admitted was an effort to
prevent us from even knowing whether or not our request was granted.
Email received from Ingrid Rimland,
maintainer of the Zündelsite, on January 30th:
Jamie, Ernst Zundel wants me to tell you that due to the flood of
accessors, e-mail and other developments in the wake of the last
few days there is simply no way we can deal with your request no
longer to use the Nizkor name with regard to the debate. For one, I
cannot even get onto my own website.
It took me this morning 4 hours to even get into my File Manager
page, and then I couldn't save what I had placed. Note that we
haven't even changed the date on our news page which I will attempt
to do now.
Ernst says that he will reply to your request as soon as things
are manageable on this end.
And, by the way, we haven't yet begun to rebut your
rebuttal. So how can you conclude we have nothing to say? You know that
it says on the top of the page that it is still under construction.
Reply sent publicly on January 30th:
As you are well aware, Ms. Rimland, if you can get through to make any
changes to a page, such as changing the date, then you can get through to
make all the changes you want to that page. So when you do get through to
make any changes to those pages which I identified, please simply add the
following, or similar text:
If you cannot make changes to the pages, then of course I don't expect you
to do this. But if you can, then my request is perfectly reasonable.
As a reminder, here are the pages I've identified as referring to the
"debate":
http://www.webcom.com/~ezundel/english/sm_pic.html
Moreover, please make the URL known to readers of your Zuendelsite-grams,
if you have not done so already, and I would appreciate your advising me
when you have done so. Again, the URL is:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/z-open-letter/
Thank you in advance for your continued support of cross-linking.
We are of course aware that
sm_pic
is under construction. We simply point out what you have chosen to
construct. Nizkor is also under construction, but the facts about the
Holocaust are our first priority.
Email received from Ms. Rimland on
January 30th:
No, you don't quite understand what is going on. If I manage to get
onto my news page to change the date, and it takes me 4-5 hours to do
that, as it did this morning, then to get to 5 pages might take 20-25
hours. I cannot do that at this time. And I will not address this
issue until Ernst Zundel has had a chance to comment on it.
Reply sent publicly on January 30th:
Ms. Rimland, I understand quite well what is going on. Perhaps you
did not understand my previous message. I am not asking you to do
anything technically impossible, of course.
I identified five pages that deserve to be cross-linked. If you
cannot access all five at once, you cannot access all five at once. But
when you do get through to them, one at a time, to make whatever changes
you intend to make, I would appreciate your also pasting in the single
line of text which I have requested.
Since the Zuendelsite has committed to cross-linking with Nizkor
where appropriate, I assume this will not be a problem.
Since the above exchange, the following updates have been made to the
five web pages mentioned:
Around the 5th, the word "debate" began changing to
"rebuttal," a clear response to our charge that they were
using the wrong word. This was done sporadically, and some pages still
(2/27) use the word word. Our chief request, that they provide a
cross-link to
our reply,
remained (and remains) unfulfilled and ignored.
We stopped keeping track after the 12th, because the point's been
made and it's too much bother.
There may have been other modifications of which we are not aware.
With any of these modifications, the URL above could have been
included by simply pasting in the one line of code given. This was not
done. Thus, Ms. Rimland's excuse about "the flood of
accessors" was clearly just that: an excuse.
Furthermore, access to the Zündelsite is now back to normal, so
the one line of code could be added in a matter of minutes. This has
not been done.
Since the above exchange, the following "Zundelsite-grams"
have been sent out via email:
In any of these emails, the URL above could have been included by
simply pasting it in. This was not done.
Ms. Rimland terminated Jamie McCarthy's subscription to the
"Zundelsite-grams" after the 30th. She has admitted that this
was an effort to prevent him from being able to determine whether or not
Nizkor's request was granted. It is only due to good fortune that we are
still seeing the "Zundelsite-grams" at all.
[
Open Letter ]
<p>Nizkor has written an
<a href="http://www.nizkor.org/features/z-open-letter/">open letter</a>
regarding the "debate."
http://www.webcom.com/~ezundel/english/alert.swcletter.html
http://www.webcom.com/~ezundel/english/debate.html
http://www.webcom.com/~ezundel/english/a.attent.html
http://www.webcom.com/~ezundel/english/welcome.html
[etc.]