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Oh brother.
I should be thanking him for
(a) posting a list of
vulger/tastless/lewed/sexually oriented words to a...
(b) mailing list intended for the discussion of
meteorites?
SO WHAT if he is exposing someone. The man
has a penchant for stating the obvious. BIG DEAL. THAT WASN"T MY
POINT (YES, I AM SHOUTING).
Do you really want THOSE WORDS in the list
archives?
If the guy bought your domian name the YOU let it
lapse, in which case it wasn't your domain name anymore. You
obviously didn't care enough about it to re-register it so why would you care if
he wanted to sell back to you?
Personally, on a meteorite list, I don't care if
there are domain name scaplers. Maybe we should all join the I HATE
DOMAIN NAME SCALPERS list server so we can talk about
meteorites.
Gee, and people sometimes wonder why most the
scientists left the list years ago.
Look at our favorite auction site. Do you
think everyone who has meteorites for salel on ebay are collectors? I
don't. Maybe we should all expose them for the true non-collectors that
they are. Maybe we can list stuff they selling that are not
meteorites.
Oh my goodness. I just realized. A
while back I listed some of my wifes dolls and some used kids clothing on
ebay. Man, I am glad no one caught it and exposed me to the
list
Well, I just 2.5 hours on the phone dealing with an
insurance company, who admitted they were wrong but they want me to pay for
their mistake. Lets all start a thread on why I HATE INSURANCE
COMPANIES.
-Walter "Not Afraid to Sign My Name"
Branch
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----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sale:
LUNARMETEORITE.COM Domain name for sale onEbay
Darren was just posting a list of other URLs that
"Mike" was scalping.
I believe he did that to prove that this guy was
not a fellow collector just trying to sell a domain name he had got tired of
using but rather a SCALPER
As Darren said, these guys are the lowest of the
low, I had a guy buy my own domain and then he tried to sell it back to me
once he realized no one would pay his inflated price.
Instead of admonishing Darren EVERYONE should be
thanking him.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 3:19
PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Sale:
LUNARMETEORITE.COM Domain name for sale onEbay
Hi Walter, Derren &
"Mike"
I followed this posting
thread for a couple of reasons, and had
some problems with it - each and
every one - I hope we can all learn
from (This is not "aimed" at you
individuals - this is to point out
common behavior from which we can all
learn):
1 - The person who initially posted signed his post only
"Mike"
and there is no definitively identifying element in his
email
address. So, was this from
Mike Blood
Mike Farmer
Mike
Jensen
Mike Massey
Mike Martinez
Mike Cottingham
Mike
Franco
Mike Fowler
Mike Miller
Mike Tettenborn
or some other
Mike that does not immediately come to mind?
I see this frequently and it
drives me nuts. I have no problem
when someone signs their first name IF
(like I) they have their
last name as part of their email address - but
when they do not,
it makes me batty. With WHOM are we dealing? In
addition, people
likely make guesses and sometimes guess wrong,
crediting
(or blaming) someone else uninvolved simply because they
share
the same first name. (This is not such a problem with unique
or
very uncommon names like Moni or Norbert, but are a nightmare
with
almost all others, such as the Mikes, Bobs, Jims, Pauls, etc,
etc,
etc.)
Therefore, PLEASE sign
your posts fully if your last name
is not part of your email
address.
2. The next person to post has a couple of problems in his
post:
he "attacked" the original person to post (the anonymous
"Mike"),
which is very poor form if not an outright violation of
list policy,
then followed up with a long list of website names that were
far
from tasteful.
3. Finally, the last respondent failed to
include the post of the
person to whom he was addressing his comments,
requiring
those of us suffering from oldtimers' disease to go back and
check
to see every post, in case we missed one or more to see just
whom
it was being
addressed.
I do want to
acknowledge that the honorable poster in this
instance may have been
wanting to avoid further publication of
the tasteless list of names, but
those could have been omitted
and at least included the name of the
person to whom the post
was
responding.
So, there are
my concerns with this thread - and the main
reason I bring them up is it
represents FREQUENT errors made
in this list I would hope to see
disappear (and NOT to "scold"
the particular people in this particular
instance). They are:
1 - Make your identity clear when posting
2 - Be
courteous and non-attacking in your responses
3 - Exclude any tasteless
web names, etc.
4 - Make it clear to whom you are
responding.
To those of you
who say, "Who are YOU to tell people how to
act on the list!?" I respond
- just a list member hoping we can follow
the list rules and practice
common sense to make the list a pleasant
experience for all of us. Some
"protocol" is more than meaningless
cultural tradition. Some of it is
there for very specific reasons & I
think the issues I have
identified fit that category. These are not
just "pet peeves" of mine -
the least are basic courtesy and at least 2 of
them are specified list
rules.
Again, my apologies
to Walter, Derren & "Mike" who merely
provided examples of very
common behavior on the list and whom
are in no way exceptional in
violation of protocol and/or
rules.
Best wishes, Michael
(the one identified by my email
address).
on 6/16/06 3:49 AM, Walter Branch
at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> in which case I owe you an apology!
>
>
I think you owe the list an apology.
>
> -Walter Branch
>
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