[meteorite-list] Sale: LUNARMETEORITE.COM Domain name for saleonEbay

From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat Jun 17 16:46:22 2006
Message-ID: <20060617204620.40836.qmail_at_web50911.mail.yahoo.com>

--- "Sterling K. Webb" <sterling_k_webb_at_sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have to respectfully disagree with Walter
> and John Gwilliam, fine fellows both, but I took
> the view on reading Darren's original post that
> he was providing a caution to List members
> about this one particular domain-squatter,
> not at random raising the topic; the seller had
> already posted to the List. In other words, Darren
> took the effort to check into the seller's practices
> and provide a warning with the interests of List
> members in mind, as a community service, and
> for their benefit.
>
> Hard to fault that, whether you feel the warning
> was required or not. And it was NOT, as was claimed,
> unrelated to meteorites. If the seller would have
> sold
> one meteorite-related domain to a member of the
> List,
> would he then not immediately register another 50
> such names in the belief that he had found a fishing
> hole crowded with suckers?
>
> As for the quality of the other names offered by
> the seller, it is clear that Darren posted them to
> demonstrate the quality or lack thereof of the
> fellow.
> He did not create these names. And it would not be
> the first time that tastelessness and vulgarity of
> some sort made their appearance in our midst, no?
>
> I would suggest that we are all grownups here
> but someone will inevitably point to the one or
> three
> bright middle-schoolers who subscribe. I would
> submit
> that any 12-year-old savvy enough to find his way to
> the List has already encountered website names (if
> not the sites themselves) that outdo these by a
> country
> mile.
>
> And, Walter, it's alright to gripe about your
> insurance
> company just once and parenthetically; you need to
> vent. Once we've had to deal with them, we all hate
> our insurance companies, and for good reason. Darren
> thinks domain-squatters are scum; he's obviously
> never
> dealt with insurance banditoes, or maybe it just
> isn't
> on-topic. Unless the insurance company refused to
> pay
> for burglarized meteorites... Not everything has to
> be
> totally on-topic, does it?
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
>

Very well said Sterling. I am sure there are many
different interpretations of what has been posted so
far but yours is one which is mature, fitting and
appropriate to those capable of drawing a line under
this episode.

Rob McC


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Received on Sat 17 Jun 2006 04:46:20 PM PDT