[meteorite-list] meteoriteblog.com anyone game?

[Meteoriteshow]

I'm on your side as well Michael & Bernd! Racialism is a real cancer of our
societies and if we let it grow, this will become a general cancer...
Just my 2 cents,

Frederic Beroud
www.meteoriteshow.com
Lyon, France
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael L Blood" <mlblood at cox.net>
To: "drtanuki" <drtanuki at yahoo.com>; "Meteorite List"
<meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>; "Charlie Devine"
<moonrock25 at webtv.net>
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] meteoriteblog.com anyone game?


> Hi Dirk,
>         Good to hear from you.
>         How does your statement below relate to your statement
> less than 2 hrs ago claiming you did not set this up and it is
> not yours?
>         Also, are you suggesting we should indulge a context
> with racial slurs, obscenity & false identification because maybe
> something good will come out of it  ......  eventually?
>         When I was young I used to let racial slurs go by, figuring
> eventually the ignorant will come around - and, besides, you
> can't really change an ignorant person's mind. The older I
> got -  and totally now, I will not let a racial comment go by - EVER.
> I take it completely personally - as though I am a Jew, African
> American, Mexican, etc. I believe when everyone who is not
> a racist reacts this way 100% of the time, the racists will be
> shut out and shut down - and racism will, eventually be extremely
> minimal and very difficult to pass on to future generations. Either
> that, or the racists will become extremely isolated and at least
> not be polluting the minds of the young.
>         I, for one will not abide racist commentary. Period.
>         Obscenity - well, I have a  tolerance for that.
>         However, Claiming to be another when posting to a site -
especially
> when expressing obscenities (or racism, etc) is both cowardly and
> completely unacceptable.
>         So, Dirk, don't ask me to abide by the above practices.
> They can lay golden eggs on that site for all I care. Until and unless
> racism and false identification is at zero, it is way out of bounds for
me.
> Period.
>         Best wishes, Michael
>
>
>
>
> on 2/21/05 2:13 PM, drtanuki at drtanuki at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Charlie and List,
> > Thanks for your posts concerning blogs.  So far the
> > meteoriteblog list isn`t creating anything positive;
> > but given time I believe it will allow scandals, etc.
> > come out into the mainstream...so that buyers and
> > sellers will know what is happening behind their
> > backs.
> > The users of a blog will learn to calm down and
> > produce something positive or the blog will go away.
> > Photos of meteorites and prices if you want to sell
> > can be posted...it could also be used as a live
> > auction.  Thanks.  Have patience and perhaps the users
> > of the blog will use it positively.  Sincerely, Dirk
> > Ross
> >
> >
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