[meteorite-list] So sad, so bad - downtime a g a i n ???

From: bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de <bernd.pauli_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Dec 11 18:14:41 2004
Message-ID: <DIIE.0000002E00002E3F_at_paulinet.de>

I will take the liberty to quote from a few mails I've received of
late and hope the people who wrote them will pardon me for doing so!

> I too grow weary of the list and certain types of threads. For me
> the list has become a real annoyance to my life. I find myself
> reading less and less...which is too bad.
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> we've discussed many times how very few messages to the list we
> actually read, and how negatively the list has impacted our community.
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> Even though I was not present at the Met-List's inception, I have read many
> archive posts and recognize its change from an informational and proper site
> to, well, I don't know how to describe the list today. I can also do without
> the list's daily digressions and ego wars
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> Many of us have been on the List since its conception in, when was it, 1997
> maybe? And I, like ... (and maybe others) are no longer on the List. I just got
> fed up with the non-meteorite stuff and saw yet another non-meteorite battle
> brewing and pulled plug.
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> Sadly the Meteorite List has cost lots of dealers customers and many collectors
> have got out of collecting because of the negative posts. It is a spoiled child
> in bad need of discipline ...
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> a list of responsible meteorite collectors who share a love of that
> hobby rather than misuse what was once a good idea for a list.
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> my delete button is wearing out on my key pad from most of
> the recent posts on the List. I`m tired of all of the things ...
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> The B.S. on the List goes beyond annoyance to the point
> where it is actually diminishing my enjoyment of the hobby.
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> A lot of important people have left the List because of the poor
> content and bad behavior that exists there. I sometimes cringe
> when I read some of the posts made to the list knowing that people
> like Carleton Moore and Art Ehlmann, to name just two, might be
> reading the same garbage.
Received on Sat 11 Dec 2004 06:14:40 PM PST