[meteorite-list] A Call For A New Meteorite List

From: joseph_town_at_att.net <joseph_town_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed Jan 5 16:50:02 2005
Message-ID: <010520052149.2502.41DC610500050C8A000009C621603759640299019BA1089F0A9C0106_at_att.net>

I have wondered about that and I simply concluded that it's good common sense to stay out of the frey to protect your investments.

Bill


 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Alexander Seidel" <gsac_at_gmx.net>
> > While I certainly agree that the flame wars etc. make this list virtually
> > a joke, I do not think a new list would catch on to the point where it
> > replace this list. It has just been around too long. I think the answer
> > is to fix what we have.
>
> I have been around here since the very beginnings, many years ago,
> and I have been a silent lurker for almost all of the time, with
> a few exceptions, when I had something to say here.
>
> I agree to what Jim said in the cited statement above, and to what
> Adam Hupé added in a more recent post. A *new* list would not solve the
> problem - and a list for IMCA members would probably be, well, a "lonely
> place", compared to the meteorite list even in the bad state that it seems
> to be in right now.
>
> By the way: have you frequent OT-posters and fighters and moralizers
> and and and... ever thought about why the *real* big ones of the
> meteorite scene never ever raised their voice here? Bob Haag e.g. - you
> may ask him about this list, and he will give you his reply to your
> question! A good bunch of the high roller private collectors that I know are
> definitely *not* interested in either actively or passively following this
> list.
>
> Have you ever asked yourselves *why this is so*..??
>
> Btw: I admire Art for his almost unbelievable patience in hosting this
> forum.
>
> Well, just a few thoughts,
> Alex
> Berlin/Germany
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