[meteorite-list] Fwd: more on meteoriteblog.com

From: Sterling K. Webb <kelly_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Mon Feb 21 19:49:51 2005
Message-ID: <421A80A0.8702A777_at_bhil.com>

     Hi, Dave, Dirk, List!

         That "bad neighborhood" the blog resides in is called the Real
     World, the Home of the Crazies in the Land of the Fevered. It
     reminds me of the Days Before the Web, when there was no www (the
     only case of three words that only have three syllables
     altogether but somehow need a nine-syllable abbreviation).
         Yes, there was an InterNet for more than a decade before Al
     Gore invented the Web or Steve Jobs invented the
     HyperTextMarkupLanguage, and the sites on it were BBS's, or
     Bulletin Board Systems, all local and structured exactly like
     Blogs, except that everything looked like it had been typed on a
     typewriter.
         In the early 1980's, the big BBS's (CompuServe, GEnie, Delphi)
     all had phone nodes all over ther USA, so that they functioned
     very much like the InterNet, with text displays creeping along the
     wires at 300 baud. You could watch the individual alphabetic
     characters printing to your computer screen like there was a
     ghostly slow typist somewhere out there sending to you.
         Being from a Western state, Dave, you can recognize that I am
     pulling the Old Settler routine here, "Why I kin recollect the
     Great Electron Drive of '85..." I was very big on GEnie in the
     80's and had my own pages there as a commercial software
     developer. But seriously, that's all the blogs are --- a
     25-year-old technology updated to the Web, and I for one find
     blogs very entertaining, like poking in a trash heap with a (long)
     stick to stir the vermin.
         Whoever created this one knows our little List very well and
     is having fun with us, but it'll be gone e'er long, so enjoy it!

     Sterling Webb

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David Freeman wrote:

> Dear Dirk;
>
> I have seen blog's in the past, and they are a rather fickle friend at
> best. The car door is unlocked and the key is in the ignition. And the
> beast is parked in an unsavory neighborhood, the unmoderated web. They
> remind me of a perfectly good car without a steering wheel.
>
> Sad part is, they are not visited by just meteorite hunters/collectors.
> They are visited by any bafoon that can type in M-E-T-E-O-R-I-T-E
> meaning those that are behind masks, behind bars, from mental
> institutions, the largest scam artists, felons-with-out-a-cause inc. ,
> and the likes of all who would commit fraud with meteorites, and all
> sorts of non proper avenues that positive meteorite associates would not
> really be found in. Gangs inhabit blog sites.
> Seemingly this could open a very negative doorway for vile sorts to
> enter meteorites. Motive:
> $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
>
> I see no reason for me to visit such an unmoderated contraption,
> especially when we don't even now who hosts/ sponsors the thing
>
> Kind of reminds me of the verse in that "Alice's Restaurant" song as the
> fellow sits on the bench and the others all moved away. baby rapers,
> father rapers............ and litter bugs included!
>
> Dave F
>
> drtanuki wrote:
>
> >Dear List, Here is a reply to Michael`s request.
> >Dirk Ross
> >--- Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_cox.net> wrote:
> >
> >>Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:55:24 -0800
> >>Subject: more on meteoriteblog.com
> >>From: Michael L Blood <mlblood_at_cox.net>
> >>To: drtanuki <drtanuki_at_yahoo.com>
> >>
> >>Hi Dirk,
> >> Thanks. I understand. May I suggest you post
> >>this response
> >>to the list so others understand, too?
> >> Thanks, again, Michael
> >>
> >>
> >>on 2/21/05 2:51 PM, drtanuki at drtanuki_at_yahoo.com
> >>wrote:
> >>
> >>>Michael,
> >>> First I only made a request on the list for
> >>>
> >>someone
> >>
> >>>to set up a blog. Someone did...I do not know
> >>>
> >>who. I
> >>
> >>>am Jewish and German and I find some of the posts
> >>>offesensive also; but I did not set up the site
> >>>
> >>and
> >>
> >>>cannot therefore take it down. People will come
> >>>
> >>to
> >>
> >>>their senses or it will go into disuse by its
> >>>
> >>users.
> >>
> >>>Best, Dirk
> >>>
> >>>
Received on Mon 21 Feb 2005 07:45:21 PM PST