[meteorite-list] Goodbye list!

From: Martin Altmann <Altmann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri May 27 09:46:24 2005
Message-ID: <013201c562c3$7888c060$6c5e9a54_at_9y6y40j>

Marcin,

my last 2cents to this issue.

Summary:

List listen to the Fly-Fighter and Clairevoyant Martin Edmund Altmann:
Soon all, who have smth for sale will claim equal rights for all.
If Mr.Chicago is allowed to advertise daily or even more often, there is no
reason for others not to do so too.

We will have 500-1000 commercial emails by day.
Then we can forget this list.


Proposal:
The two months before the last member will have left, I suggest, the list
moderator, should ask for each ad 1$ fee,
at least to honour his effort to have supplied us for so long time with
that, what we'll have then to call in retrospective,
once to have been the best meteorite forum on the globe.


My personal view:

on this list are almost all internet meteorite dealers and many
dealer-collectors as well as collectors, who naturally have from time to
time smth for sale.
Imagine now, what will happen, if each of them would post daily his/her
offers to the list and would give a note, if a specimen was sold?
We would have several hundreds of emails per day, only with commercial
contents.

But, as I at least believe, this list was founded as forum to discuss
topics about meteorites, to help, if someone has questions, to share
interesting articles and
literature, to keep the members updated about recent developments in
research and actual observations of falls, to help to learn about
meteorites, meteorite hunting, preparation and and and...

For sales exist 6 more lists, where ads explicetily are welcome.
Nobody will have anything against, if Mr.Chicago advertises there each day,
why he has to molest so many members on this meteorite-central-list?

Regardless of the person of Steve Arnold, Chicago - nobody is angry, if
someone offers something for sale or trade, but not 30 mails per month, most
containing even always the same specimens!
Why for God's sake, he can't combine his offers in a single ad per week?

To write every day an ad is unfair angainst all the dealers, who are
disciplined and advertise sparsely even if they have immense amounts of
material for
sale and it's in my eyes absolutely impolite towards all those, who asked
him so
many times to reduce his spam, as they feel disturbed by this.

Or in modern words: It's pure terrorism.

Here, check this:
Martin, without Buckleboo

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Received on Fri 27 May 2005 09:53:31 AM PDT