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

From: almitt <almitt_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Dec 11 19:17:28 2004
Message-ID: <41BB8EA9.27EB72D1_at_kconline.com>

Hi Bernd and all,

Your email as always is very appropriate! I think it should be a wake up call. A
drowning victim only comes up three times before going down for good.

To speak without thinking is to shoot without aiming.

I can't think of a single quote I disagree with. All my best to all.

--AL Mitterling

bernd.pauli_at_paulinet.de wrote:

> 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 07:19:53 PM PST