[meteorite-list] Ads Sales of Meteorites, yes, that is correct, I said Sales of " METEORITES" which is exactly what this list is about

From: Brian Cox <searchingforfun_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:53:55 -0500
Message-ID: <FAA28AEA2ED743688769525D1BCBC171_at_user6e6e286533>

Hello fellow "METEORITE COLLECTORS and DEALERS!
Yes, that is exactly what we are, Collectors and Dealers! We are not Editors
for a magazine on Better Homes and Gardens, nor NASCAR, nor Playboy, nor
Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, nor The Christian Science Monitor.
We are a group that is interested in Meteorites. Let's get that Straight
Now!
So, I ask myself and all of you. Why is it that there are a very few, a very
small percentage that even bothers to spend their time looking at the post,
whether it is from each individual email that comes from the list or the
"Bulk Email" that I prefer which gives me the choice of scrolling down
through all of the emails to see which I want to read first if I don't have
the time to go through all of them. If anyone out there hates getting single
emails so much and hates the Ad Sales and doesn't know how to change their
settings for bulk emails from the list, please just ask and I assure you
dozens of people will help you. If you can't change your settings or don't
want to, just simply delete the Ad Sales email as was stated earlier.

I'm just including an email below that I sent to one of the angry anti-post
people a few months ago and I have taken out any reference to said person,
but have included the important details that I wanted to touch upon. We are
a group of Meteorite Collectors and Dealers, and I don't think it's
necessary for me to repeat that over and over again. The Ads and Sales post
belong on this list. If it were an email list for coins, sea shells,
minerals, old porcelain china, antiques and Native American Jewelry, I could
see someone getting upset, but it baffles me why so many get upset over ads
and Sales when there is "ABSOLUTELY NOTHING GOING ON THIS WEEK ABOUT SPACE
OR METEORITES TO TALK ABOUT" so, I rest my case.

We all want to buy and trade and sell meteorites, so let us just accept the
Ads and Sales Ads as part of this hobby and live in peace.

All the best and I wish all of you clear skies and that a 100 kilogram
meteorite will fall into your yard!!

Brian

IMCA # 6387

searchingforfun is my ebay User Id

Below is my last email to a major complainer that I sent this email to a few
months ago, that I felt represents the feelings from anyone trying to sell
meteorites.
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As everyone has stated the past several weeks, you do NOT contribute
anything to the list, but complaining about ADS, SALES. If it weren't for
the dealers putting ads on the list about their websites or the collectors
putting Ads on the list about their auctions there would not be a simple,
easy way for collectors and other dealers to be aware of the sales unless
individual emails were sent out or bulk emails were sent out to each person.
I know Art doesn't send out an email to everyone that puts an Ad Sale on his
list and rambles on like you do. He has common sense! Do you have so much
time on your hands that all you can do is count ads on the list?

Is it because it's dark out now and you can't be out on your lawn spraying
poor innocent children with your hose? You need to get some additional
hobbies to take up your time of counting meteorite ads. Why don't you do
something constructive instead of always picking a fight with me or
Cottingham or The Hupes or whomever else you send your ridiculous emails to.

Why don't you volunteer to help the poor and homeless. I live downtown and I
can help and volunteer with the homeless at shelters, with the park district
or the anti-cruelty society or the Zoo or with The American Cancer Society
or the underprivileged or with HIV/AIDs patients or the elderly.

Why must you be such a mean and nasty person who has nothing better to do
than count Ads posted for sales of "Meteorites" to the Meteorite List? Are
you angry because you're not selling whatever else you may be selling or do
you feel that because there are sales ads for, again, "METEORITES" on "The
Meteorite List" that people will spend their money on meteorites and not on
something else that you want them to buy from you.

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Received on Wed 14 Oct 2009 10:53:55 PM PDT