[meteorite-list] No More Anti-Steve Posting Please

From: Gtceb_at_aol.com <Gtceb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri May 27 15:13:36 2005
Message-ID: <d5.28fccb0e.2fc8cb17_at_aol.com>

Mark:
Deleting Steevvee's posts is not the answer. We can nitpick about the
definition of spam (which is like picking the flysh*t out of the pepper), but if
SSTTEEVVe was sending the list MULTIPLE UNWANTED pictures or links of himself and
a friendly Chihuahua, or offers to sell you pics of him and his friendly
Chihuahua and a meteorite (to make it meteorite related), though you belonged to
the list, would it not be considered offensive and not appropriate (spam) by
most list members? The answer is yes from where I sit. Take a good hard look
at Bill's post below. When SSTTEEVE rips people off (or politely misrepresents
himself for the "live and let live" crowd), this goes way beyond an odd for
sale post. He is a detriment to the meteorite community (imagine a newbie
buying one of his "3 for 1 sale" meteorites only to find out that he got screwed).
 Then the person tries to write SSTTEVE, but does not get an answer. Buyer
beware? No. That person does not buy again. Acceptance of Steve's bad habits
(hit the delete key, et al.) are an endorsement of his behavior to his feeble
brain. He has no reason to stop because a few people say "good job
SSTTEEVEY". The list is not SSTTEEVY's personal sales blog (I assume you agree with
that), or information seeking blog, or lonely married person blog, or person with
no friends blog, or here is my trip to Mexico blog, etc. to torture list
members whenever he sees fit.
My opinion. Nothing personal to you.
Terry
StarMeteorites

"I was just going to let this go, but seeing some folks not understanding how
this fellow operates I have decided to tell a short story about my first
dealings with Steve A. from Chicago (Elgin) IL.

I was actually taken in by a request for some Franconia irons a few weeks
back which I hunt for and find myself here in Arizona, by Steve. Now I hunt
these and take pride in my finds and picked out some very nice little irons
and also a slice of about 1.5 grams or so of the H5 chondrite thought to be
the source of the small and very unique irons and sent them to Steve as a
gift thinking he would add them to his collection.

A few days later they show up for sale on ebay...Didn't sell there so he put
them in his sale...Needless to say I felt sort of stupid and taken for the
proverbial ride. This was my first and LAST experience with Mr. Arnold. I
emailed him asking about it and got no reply.

Yes it is true that they are his do with as he pleases, but I feel I should
have been told before sending them to him that he intended to sell them and
not keep them. His pretence was owning some for his collection in his
request. Alas I am fond of learning some things the hard way, but just once
:)

Whoops...Bill"
Received on Fri 27 May 2005 03:12:23 PM PDT