[meteorite-list] Recent E-mails

[Paul Harris]

Dear List,

I am deeply humbled by so many wonderful emails.  Thank you.  I will 
reply to each of you personally as time allows which
at the current moment is extremely limited do to complications with my 
Father.

Dear Gary K Foote,

This is public notice that I do not want you to ever privately email me 
again.  If you have something to say then post if publicly.
I will assume that any future emails sent to me privately were meant to 
be publicly viewed and that I should forward it to the list.

Paul Harris


Gary K. Foote wrote:
> Mark,
>
> You will find this list to be many of the following;
>
> Informative
> Knowledgable
> Generous
>
> But you will also find it to be;
>
> Fractious
> Backbiting
> Competitive
> Ugly at times
>
> I for one apologize to you for the latter negatives and hope you can ignore them 
> and focus on the former positives.  There ARE moments of sanity here and they at 
> least balance the crazy stuff evenly.
>
> The metorite world is nothing if not 'colorful'.  lol
>
> Gary
> http://www.meteorite-dealers.com
>
> -------------- Original message ---------------
> Just a note from a new member. Since I am fairly new to the meteorite field, I 
> have been mainly watching the postings and learning what I can. I've posted a 
> couple of questions andpurchased a few items from some of the members, and I can 
> say without a doubt thatthe members have been very, very helpful with the 
> responses. Thanks to all of you who have helped me out. 
>
> With that said, I have found many of therecent e-mails that I have seen to 
> besomewhat disheartening, and based on the subject lines, I am starting to delete 
> more and moree-mails without reading them,which is unfortunate, because I joined 
> the list to read e-mails and learn what I can. 
>
> I know I am new, and many, many of you know each other for many years, and I don't 
> mean to interfere orsay anything inappropriate. I just wanted to let you know 
> that some of the back and forth does not present the meteorite list in the best 
> light to new members, and certainly does notreflect the vast wealth, knowledge and 
> experience thatalmost everyone (except for me!) on thelist has. 
>
> In addition to providing a means of communication between members who know each 
> other, the listhas an enormous potential to inform, educate and promote the hobby 
> and the profession tomembers, new and old, as well as the public, and I just hope 
> the latter doesn't get lost in all the recent back and forth between members. 
>
> So having told the list the impression that is being left with at least one new 
> member, I will go back to watching the postings. 
>
> Thanks for hearing me out. 
>
> Mark 
>
>
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