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----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 5:44 PM
Subject: [etrade] RE: DEADHEADS!!!
> It's Valentine's Day people, where is the love? I really didn't expect
rabid
> criticism of an idea to trade Dead shows more easily. I guess I'm just old
> school. I wanted to hear everyone's opinion before I replied. The only
> reason I suggested the "closed" model is because I don't have any fancy
> database software to run this with. I'm doing it all by hand. Besides, I
> think a smaller circle is more personal.
>
> To the person who pointed out that this is very much like the etree.org
> database that lists who has each show, you are right. The difference is
that
> you don't have to grovel or set up a trade. You will have a login at your
> disposal. Yes, a popular show might take some time to get but at least you
> know it will be there when it's your "turn." If each group is small
enough,
> you won't have a rediculous number of people hammering your server. As for
> the question: "What do you do when you 'close' the group and then new
seeds
> appear on the scene?" You assume I don't plan to keep trading through
every
> existing avenue. Of course I do.
>
> I'm offended by people who are trying to put this in a negative light when
> they don't know me or what I intend to do. Who else has offered up 200
shows
> on this list? Lately, all I see are ISOs and I want this and I want that.
Of
> course, there are exceptions to that rule. Look, this is just another way
to
> trade. To me, it's an improvement over what exists. If you don't think so,
> maybe you want to offer suggestions to make it better rather than
attacking?
> In the end, it might not be for you. (It's just a box of rain...) Either
> way, there is plenty of room in the Grateful Dead universe for
etree/etrade,
> nycheads, CDead, GDLive, Furthur, Direct Connect and any other method of
> trading anyone comes up with.
>
> Finally, for all of you who replied and liked the idea, I am going through
> the email as quick as I can. You'll be hearing from me very soon. For all
> the attack dogs who just bit off my arm, you might want to drop it on the
> ground, take a step back and look at the hand that was trying to feed you.
> Tiff once chopped off part of Jerry's finger... now you bit off my arm.
I'll
> do it like Jerry... no hard feelings. If you change your mind, you've got
my
> email address. Even though this topic was deemed fair play, for the sanity
> of all involved, please keep it off the list.
>
> WOB: 1 login to my server all day on Monday 2/18. If I can see your list,
> I'll put something up you don't have.
>
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