[meteorite-list] An open message to all list members

From: Paul Barford <pbarford_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Aug 27 16:43:49 2006
Message-ID: <005401c6ca19$3f5d2560$1f85cf57_at_chello.pl>

Dave Carothers warns:
> WE as a community have REAL problems. <
Dressing mud-slinging up in self-righteous verbiage about "doing it for the
good of the community" is just a smokescreen.
I think it is arrogant to think there is only one person here who can check
or comprehend what they read in an advert on eBay.

It seems to me that, despite denials, somebody here bears a grudge and are
expressing it in a most unpleasantly smug manner which hardly inspires
confidence in their motivation, character or judgement.

My feeling is that issues like this would be best restricted to off-list
correspondence. And whether or not Mr Arnold subsequently wishes to change
the text of his advert is surely up to him, he alone is responsible for his
own words. And anyway, caveat emptor.

Private emails have again been posted on the list (which I believe is
against the rules).

In any case the ebay ad does not read as Carothers reported. See
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290023409215

Carothers continues:
> I see Steve (Chicago) Arnold as a direct threat to this great
> hobby
Hmm, rather an exaggeration isnt it? I rather think this constant bitching
and back-biting we find all too much of on this list is a greater direct
threat to the hobby. The repetetivity of this kind of exhibition will merely
make a laughing stock of the whole milieu.

> I've going to be your own personal Ralph Nader. Every time
> you post a misleading/untruthful/fraudulent ad, I'm going to
> expose it... publicly. [...] someone needs to expose you for
> what you are.?
It might be a novel idea to suggest, but perhaps we could use the list to
talk about meteorites and not persue private vendettas against other list
members? Please? You are really helping nobody here.

> I?m hoping the publicity and peer pressure will convince
> Steve (Chicago) Arnold develop a different set of morals.
Though yet another ungrammatical sentence, that sounds awfully
self-righteous. I know nothing of Mr Arnold's "morals", nor would I presume
to judge them from an eBay ad.


Mr Carothers, in future, please leave me off the list of addressees of such
"open letters", I really dont want to receive any more such spam with filled
with pettiness and 'holier than thou' smugness. And I would not be
surprised to find that I am the only list member who feels like this. Thank
you.

Paul Barford
Received on Sun 27 Aug 2006 04:41:07 PM PDT