[meteorite-list] So sad, so bad - downtime a g a i n ???
From: J. Hirschmann <jh_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Dec 11 18:28:19 2004 Message-ID: <1087.217.94.185.254.1102807353.squirrel_at_www.hirschmann.net> Hi, that?s absolutely true. Joachim > 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> we've discussed many times how very few messages to the list we >> actually read, and how negatively the list has impacted our community. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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 ... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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 ... > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The B.S. on the List goes beyond annoyance to the point >> where it is actually diminishing my enjoyment of the hobby. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> 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. > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Sat 11 Dec 2004 06:22:33 PM PST |
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