Dean takes that out of context. I don't understand why Dean defends the right to spam since he never does. Greg said lift it or enforce it. That makes perfect sense.
---------------------------------------- > Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:22:49 -0700 > From: deanbes...@yahoo.com > To: meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] cottingham - BAN BILL - lift the AD limit > > >> An easy way to eliminate the issue is to lift the AD >> limit... problem solved. >> Just my opinion. >> Greg C. >> > I am not going to try and set policy or personally declare myself sheriff but > I will make an argument in support of this - realizing that a small number of > people do abuse the postings. > I know myself when I make sale postings its usually a bunch of sales clumped > all together. When I left Canada for example for a couple weeks I was having > sales almost every day. Then nobody herd from me for a year. When I get a new > moroccan shipment or when I go to shows like Tucson or Munich I also post > almost daily sales sometimes. Sometimes the sales are on behalf of my > moroccan friends and sometimes my own stuff and if I could only post one ad > while in munich, becides hurting my personal profits it prevents people who > cant go to take part in the show and acquire new stuff on offer. > Another example: Michael Blood has in february what is probably the worlds > biggest meteorite even as far as collectors are concerned. You never hear > from him for a year so would it be fair to prevent list members from learning > about the most recent updates to the main event? Of course not. > Several people who were the biggest abusers have pretty much abandoned the > list and you never hear from their sales anymore - you can bet that the list > in general is missing out on new stuff because of that. > However, with you agree with me or not, wither bill is right or not, one > thing is clear. Spewing attacks to 1000 people and pissing half of them off > is not the way to react. Nobody wants to hear this crap. You get more anti > list bitching than you do ads. The list could be renamed the anti ad bitching > list. > Here is a tip. If you are confident that you never want to buy something from > somebody just use your email filters to block that persons emails. > Problem solved. > Sincerely > DEAN > PS: You would of course think that sales are something new and not the same > stuff on offer again (And again, and again and again and.........). > > > > ______________________________________________ > http://www.meteoritecentral.com > Meteorite-list mailing list > Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com > http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list _________________________________________________________________ Rediscover Hotmail®: Get quick friend updates right in your inbox. http://windowslive.com/RediscoverHotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Rediscover_Updates2_042009 ______________________________________________ http://www.meteoritecentral.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
