[meteorite-list] (No More) One-Ad Per Week Rule

[Jerry Flaherty]

Sounds like a valid historic summary and I don't advertize.

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From: "dean bessey" <deanbessey at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:13 PM
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] (No More) One-Ad Per Week Rule

> <The fact seems to be forgotten that a consensus was taken by Art about 
> advertising in his forum.  Advertising is a privilege, not a right and Art 
> was considering having no ads at all due to abuse.  The consensus, at the 
> time, was that way too many ads were being posted and that one-ad-per-week 
> should be  a rule.   List members input was taken into account so this was 
> not only Art's wishes but the majority of other members as well.> <SNIP>
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> This is flat out wrong. There never was any consensus. Art went on record 
> as saying that he did not mind ads.
> What happened was that 4 or 5 people decided that they would hijack Art's 
> list as if it was their own and decide to prevent people from making "to 
> many" (Whatever that means) ads. After months and months of bombarding the 
> list with anti ad attack postings Art basically tried to shut up the 
> malcontents that dont appriciate the fact that they have the privelidge 
> being a part of what is  basically the best online meteorite forum and 
> said "OK, one a week".
> Then, rather than shut up,  these 4 or 5 people decide to declare 
> themselves sherrif and kept going on with this anti ad campaign and even 
> the most minor offence (Even during big shows like tucson and munich) was 
> enough to make attack postings. They decided to continue making an ass of 
> themselves and continue their efforts to hijack arts list as if it was 
> their own.
> Then after people started leaving the list because of all these attack 
> postings they had the gall to claim that "They left because of the ads". 
> (The fact that people werent leaving before their hijacking and attacking 
> efforts is conveniently ignored).
> Nobody leaves this list because of the ads (Well there may have been 2 or 
> 3 people who left because they are to stupid to use the delete button or 
> block sender button in their email settings and dislaike the fact that 
> people are allowed to own meteorites like the cultural property people in 
> some governments but its an insignificant few). People leave because of 
> the bickering. Dont try and twist it around that its not because of those 
> 4 or 5 people that is basically ruining things for everybody.
> Becides why are you 4 or 5 people constantly harrassing the other 1000 of 
> us with your diatrabes? An iq of about six would enable you to understand 
> that the only person who matters is art so why dont you email him rather 
> than the rest of us who cant do anything even if we did buy the fact that 
> you somehow have the right to unilaterally declare yourselves sherrif even 
> though you have no ownership or control of this list?
> The answer of course is that Art has the smarts to ignore the whackos.
> Nobody is forcing anybody to be a part of this list. You dont even need 
> arts permission to leave. You can do it yourself.
> Stop this assanine BS and let us talk meteorites and have sales. If you 
> have a problem dont complain to the other 1000 of us.
> And the "Majority consensus" that you refer to is about the same as what 
> the "Majority consensus" of an iranian election would be. It is flat out 
> not the will of the majority of list members or the list owner but the 
> will of 4 or 5 people who wants to run the list as they see fit (Like the 
> aftermat of an Iranian election).
> I suspect that cottingshams lastest excessive postings are designed to 
> entertain and see how big an ass that certain paople can make of 
> themselves by complaining about them. Some people has posted 2 anti ad 
> attacks for every one of cottingshams supposedly excessive ads. The other 
> 1000 of us are surely happy about that.
> Go away. The consensus of the silent majority dont want to listen to your 
> attacks anymore
> Sincerely
> DEAN
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