[meteorite-list] Pterosaur egg

[JKGwilliam]

Sterling and List,
Thanks for your post Sterling.  As always, your intelligence and writing 
skills are provocative.
I was planning on avoiding this thread altogether, but after reading 
Sterling's post I must say that he has hit the provebial nail right on the 
head.  Sterling is right, no one knows what is really at issue here and 
this METEORITE list would be better off if everyone would become better 
informed with the facts before making their opinions known.

Best,
JKG

At 10:38 PM 6/17/2005, Sterling K. Webb wrote:
>Hi, All,
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>     Could I remind everyone that what is being argued about here is all
>hypothetical.
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>     Apart from Capt'n Blood, who as broker is obligated to protect the
>privacy and confidentiality of both buyer and seller I believe, no one
>has any concrete first hand knowledge about this matter.
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>     No one knows the seller. No one knows whether he devoted 18 years of
>his life to the quest, expending $130,000 of his own money to search for
>the egg or whether he tripped over it in his driveway one morning. No
>one knows anything about his morals, ethics, character, or even why he's
>trying to sell it.  Maybe he's had it for years and now he needs a heart
>transplant operation.  No one knows.
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>     No one knows the buyer, especially since there doesn't appear to be
>one yet. No one knows what his motive would be, either.  No one knows if
>he plans on donating to a museum for a bronze plaque on the case or
>putting in a mayonaise jar and burying in under his back porch. Equally,
>no one knows anything about the morals, ethics, or character of this as
>yet hypothetical individual, or even why he would buy it.
>
>     We are calling each other communists or free-booting thieves of
>knowledge, vandals or totalitarian bug-a-boo's or worse, and no one
>knows anything about this actual specific situation, whether it's a true
>egg or an egg fraud, or anything else about this matter.  Yes, a few
>good general observations in the abstract have been made, but the
>reality should be the determining factor, and none of us knows it.
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>     As for fraud, this prominent List is a data miners' dream, for the
>oppotunity to steal hundreds of email addresses for a hundred other
>dirty tricks.  If a grifter is trying the Pterosaur Egg Con, three
>guesses where he got the idea.
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>     To return to initial point of broker ethics, my stock broker once
>said to me, after years of handling my pitiful little economic gambles,
>that if we happened to be in the same room or group of people, he would
>never reveal that we had any business relationship of any kind or even
>that we knew each other, unless I mentioned it first.  "You have a right
>to your privacy," he said.
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>     Brokerage (all kinds) has its principles, too.  Privacy is an
>important principle, too, and often entails legal obligations as well.
>I'm betting Michael wishes he'd never asked the innocent question, "Does
>anyone want to buy...?".
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>     People, we don't know anything.
>
>     Now, about this 100 kilo lunaite I found in my driveway this
>morning...
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>Sterling K. Webb
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