[meteorite-list] Look at this great auction!

From: Jim Strope <nwa482_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 16:36:18 -0500
Message-ID: <007e01c71e35$8f2783e0$0202a8c0_at_DJQVK441>

Michael and list members...

He finally saw the light and uploaded the Sikhote-alin strewnfield photo to
his server instead of just linking to my website.

The joke photo for those of you, like Michael, who did not see it was:

http://207.56.99.163/Sikhotefall4.gif


Jim Strope
421 Fourth Street
Glen Dale, WV 26038

http://www.catchafallingstar.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
To: "Jim Strope" <nwa482 at comcast.net>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:11 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Look at this great auction!


> What did you link it to? I just checked his ad and the photo is
> the same...
> Michael
>
> on 12/12/06 8:29 AM, Jim Strope at nwa482 at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Here is the original photo that was linked directly:
>> http://207.56.99.163/Sikhotefall4a.gif
>>
>> I considered complaining to the IMCA about directly linking a photo from
>> my
>> website and wasting my bandwidth but I thought it would be more fitting
>> to
>> just upload a new photo under the same URL.
>>
>> There is a lesson to be learned here........if you are going to take a
>> photo
>> from someone's website at least have the decency to host it on your own
>> servers.
>>
>> Jim Strope
>> 421 Fourth Street
>> Glen Dale, WV 26038
>>
>> http://www.catchafallingstar.com
>>
>>
>>> mark ford markf at ssl.gb.com Tue Dec 12 10:52:03 EST 2006
>>
>>
>>> Ha! that's actually quite funny! - Well done.
>>> (And an 'IMCA member' should certainly not be behaving like that, so
>>> they
>>> got all they deserve!)
>>> Best, Mark
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>>> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com] On Behalf Of
>>> Michael Farmer Sent: 12 December 2006 15:29 To: meteorite-list at
>>> meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Look at this great
>>> auction!
>>> http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ290059838558 This idiot looks like a great
>>> seller! It seems that stealing photos by linking your auction to
>>> someones
>>> elses website photos DOES NOT PAY!
>>> Well, I am on my way to Tokyo today.
>>> Mike Farmer
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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Received on Tue 12 Dec 2006 04:36:18 PM PST