[meteorite-list] Spamfest 2006

From: Gerald Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sun Mar 12 18:59:54 2006
Message-ID: <000d01c64631$09aaad00$6402a8c0_at_Dell>

ONCE weekly is cool![I too learned who to buy from here]
Jerry Flaherty
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Carothers" <davecarothers_at_erols.com>
To: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites_at_comcast.net>;
<meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Spamfest 2006


> Dear Adam and List,
>
> First... Well said, Adam. Second, let me add my $0.02.
>
> As a new collector, I'm continually looking at the people in this
> community
> to determine who the players are. I'm especially careful to analyze the
> people I buy meteorites from. Is he/she reliable? Does he/she have
> integrity? I do so, because as you all well know, a collector had better
> have faith in anyone selling him or her meteroites or you might just as
> well
> go out and buy that $3M "Martian" rock that was classified via a "vision".
>
> This list is a great place to evaluate people. Adam keyed in on one such
> evaluation item (for me at least) i.e. "breaking a promise".
>
> This list has rules. Most of the list members follow them. Those that
> don't, at least in my eyes, have lost major integrity points. It's bad
> enough that people submit multiple ads, however, replying to an ad with an
> apology and then following with yet more info about your ad is, to my
> military mind, a biggest ploy to insert yet another ad --- NO CLASS!!!!
> If
> you can't follow a simple rule like placing an AD only once a week, why
> should I or any other buyer EVER think that you would be straight forward
> with me in any sale?
>
> A rhetorical question - How many other members of this list either
> conciously or subconciously feel the same way? Those of you who can't or
> won't follow the rules may want to think about that.
>
> FWIW, just my opinion.
>
> Dave
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Hupe" <raremeteorites_at_comcast.net>
> To: <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 1:06 PM
> Subject: [meteorite-list] Spamfest 2006
>
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> Art carefully thought about the direction of this List and asked for a
>> consensus before making the once a week advertisement rule. After
>> asking
>> for input from subscribers, he set the rule realizing the List would soon
>> turn into a spamfest without it. If he thought it was important enough
>> to
>> make this rule, then users who post to this List should abide by it,
>> after
>
>> all, it is Art's creation.
>>
>> As members of this Forum, users agreed to post advertisements only once a
>> week. Those who post ads more than once a week are going against
>> something
>> they agreed to, breaking a promise. How can people who break promises
> ever
>> be trusted to do the right thing?
>>
>> Please show some respect to Art and those involved in the consensus.
> There
>> are probably 20 different users posting ads once a week with a couple
>> thinking they are above the rules posting two or more. If everybody
>> posted
>> three to seven times, then 60 to 140 ads would have to be waded through
> each
>> week, a true spamfest! Over advertising in this type of environment will
>> only serve to turn off the audience nullifying the affect.
>>
>> If those who break this rule think they are somehow special, are above
>> everybody else and these rules do not apply to them, let them gain
>> permission from Art otherwise they should be called on breaking a
>> promise.
>>
>> Take Care,
>>
>> Adam
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood_at_cox.net>
>> To: "M come Meteorite Meteorites" <mcomemeteorite2004_at_yahoo.it>;
> "Meteorite
>> List" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 9:28 AM
>> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] enough already
>>
>>
>> > on 3/12/06 8:22 AM, M come Meteorite Meteorites at
>> > mcomemeteorite2004_at_yahoo.it wrote:
>> > > I am for 2 AD post for week, one its many few, seen
>> > > for ebay auctions if ended in 3 days...
>> > > Matteo
>> > --------------
>> > You can be "For" whatever you like, Mateo. However,
>> > this is Art's list, not yours. He makes the rules.
>> > Michael
>> >
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