[meteorite-list] NWA 6292 2.110 gram

[Martin Altmann]

Carl,

yes, probably you better shouldn't have pressed the "send" button.

Neither you, Barry.

Of course everyone is free to express his opinion,
but the form it happened in, is not acceptable.

Here you have the list archives:
http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html

There you will find not a single posting by Anne, where she would have insulted any person.
And certainly Dr.Jambon feels not insulted by her.

On contrary, in a silly brawl about possible pairings of stones, silly, because they still are in the totally normal process of classification - caused by the impatience of some list-members,
she called on the list-members to do that, what one could expect from any mature meteorite collector,
to demonstrate the patience necessary and to wait until the results of the analyses will be ready.
And furthermore she got committed to exchange samples of the questioned stones, between the scientists involved in the classification processes,
which in the end now seems to work, so that the matter can be solved by scientific criteria to the full satisfaction of all interested in that question.

>Ann Black has made of a chance for a legitimate

I tell you Barry, what Anne has made.

As co-founder of the IMCA she made the meteoritic world a safer place for everyone, also for you, introducing new standards into the meteorite trade, which got more and more widely accepted.
And she created with IMCA a contact point for conflict resolution for participants in meteoritics
and a place for advice in meteoritic questions and a source of information about meteorites.

And that open to everyone and that free of charge for everyone.

And like the other founders of IMCA, she did this in thousands of working-hours absolutely unpaid.


That is certainly more, than to type an imprudent mail in the head of a moment - lock, stock and barrel condemning everything, what one even doesn't know,
and to attack with inacceptable wordings a person, to whom the meteorite community owes respect and gratitude
for that, what she has achieved for that community.

Everyone is free to dislike and to criticize IMCA,
but I think if that's done in public, one should try to stick to facts and should abstain from personal decrials.
  
I'm sure, that when you'll have slept on it,
you'll think similarly about that.

Martin