[meteorite-list] AD - A FEW DANDYS

[MexicoDoug at aol.com]

Mark B. wrote:

>On another comment I have seen you make several times 
>publicly, which you have a little here, is towards the line that 
>dealers are not giving with science.   That people have  problems
>getting 20 grams or 20%.
  
Sorry, for what it's worth, if you felt my  disagreement and expression of it 
regarding your thought process in the  recent public dispute with David was 
inappropiate.  I think you are also  hyperbolically wrong in the above comment. 
 Mark, I recently even  publically posted "Whoever has the meteorites makes 
the rules."  So let me  repeat the take-off on the Golden Rule:  "WHOEVER HAS 
THE METEORITES MAKES  THE RULES"

That I would challenge an owner or be happy to see a  space rock them to 
donate more to science or education is nothing to loose  sleep over, and that I 
support official channels when it comes to meteorite  authenticity and truth in 
labeling, over chaos, are my  idiosyncracies.  We already discussed this at 
length in private.  So I  feel it is yesterday's newspaper and I'd like to ask 
for your approval to move  on rather than change the focus of the thread from 
respect and interpretation of  MetSoc practices to the churlish subject of your 
or my  tendencies.

Congratulations on the KSU (found in the university  collection like 
Lafayette?) and the other two meteorites that have been  classified thanks in part to 
some of your initiative.
Gongho Saludos,  Doug