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Well said! (except for "detritus " which, upon consultation with the
dictionary, turned out not to be quite as appropriate as excrement)
Earl
----- Original Message -----
From: Dick Crotinger <dangle@xxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: Censure
> Well, first of all, while I might like to have "censured" (reprimanded)
> Larry for his posts to the forum, I believe he might rather assume he was
> "censored" (oversight by deletion). My guess is there was no censorship
> involved... he was told to stop posting his materials, based on what I and
> others had complained about.
>
> You wrote...
> >> Some of the people who are all up in the air about this particular
thread
> need to consider how often THEY post stuff here. How/why do they assign
such
> importance to their opinions, but are so critical of someone else's? <<
>
> To the extent I was "up in the air" the other day, I guess you are
> addressing me. I post here when I have something to say... not often
> perhaps, but what I've posted has been MINE, not parroted from my reading
> materials. Yours are some of the posts I also enjoy, because it is YOUR
> information. Larry got into the nasty habit of posting (exclusively, I
> might add) stuff that he was picking up from various e-locations. I also
> have access to e-locations, as do you and every other member of this
forum.
> NONE of us dump our detritus onto the forum like Larry did. Most
recently,
> he was posting multiple messages daily (four each day this week until
> today), with effectively no commentary of his own. And the burr that got
> deepest up my butt was his double posting the Harry Schultz Newsletter on
> Tuesday. He's not even evaluating ("censoring") his own posts, and for
that
> he deserves to have a lid put on him.
>
> You know... some of it I might have been interested in, if it was just
> posted with some degree of sensitivity to the goals for this forum. Or if
> Larry had deigned to offer some TRADING commentary, as most contributors
> here do. ("Hey ALL, take a look at the setup in Dec Gold... all that crap
> I've been posting from the Cafe is just now STARTING TO UNFOLD!!!")
> Instead, we get after-the-fact copies of diatribes talking about
collusion,
> conspiracy and collaboration, all related to a "market," yes, but none of
it
> related to "trading."
>
> This list aspires to be about "trading." I am glad to see the variety of
> posts that exist here, a lot of it perhaps out on the fringe as far as
> trading goes, but most of it interesting nonetheless. I don't want to see
> RealTraders treated like a "bulletin board," and in that vein I support
the
> efforts to eliminate the posts that had become too monotonous to keep
> deleting.
>
> Good TRADING,
>
> Dick Crotinger
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