At 04:45 AM 3/28/2008, you wrote:
This is the first list I joined
and came across some very generous people here who set me on the on the path
of learning whatever I know of trading. While some of them are still here ,
the list is not even an iota of what it was. Part of the credit for
the list's demise rests squarely on [a] those who tried to abuse it
for commercial purposes and [b] those who could not appreciate the merit of
the posts of the members who were also vendors of products/services abd
disrespected such members. Part of the credit I am afraid goes to absolute
lack of leadership in those who have been entrusted with minding this group.
The wealth of knowledge that still exists in the senior membership of this
list has been allowed to go waste.
Strong accusations,
now let's see some proof.
First, you state that a major problem
with the list is those people who tried to exploit it for commercial purposes
and then, immediately state that the next thing wrong with it is that members
were controlled with regard to posting commercial content. You finally
give a large measure of credit for the problems to the management but offer no
information with regard to what mistakes that management made or what you
suggest to make the list better. All I was able to glean from your mail
is that you want less commercialism but you want the members to be able to
post commercial information and management has failed somehow with something
.. Do I sound a little angry? I hope so. My paycheck for running
this list isn't so very large and I have a lot of experience running
lists. I love ideas. I love criticism. I love suggestions
for improvement. What I hate is complaints without suggestions of how to
improve things. When people complained about my strict policies on
advertising, I loosened it up. When they complained again about it, I,
for all practical purposes, removed it. Now you say part of the problem
is the commercial content rules. What rules? How do you want these
rules, (whatever they are), changed? You then go on to say that the rest
of the problem is my management.
Well, I reviewed my management
over the past two years. It has consisted of changing the rules on
advertising here on 3 occasions to conform to what membership seem to
want. It consisted of the removal of 2 members and a few minor reminders
about policy to the list. Would you describe that as too much management
or too little management or just bad management? Please define how you
would have done it better and offer suggestions for how it can be done better
now.
Bob
R
Jeffrey Harteam
<jharteam@xxxxxxxxxx.com> wrote:
- This is really bad. Somebody just got
removed for posting a nice article for me to read.!!! BobKC , your
rules I?m sorry to say are very wrong. No wonder, no one wants to
post anything here ever again. Just ridiculous!!.
- Have a good one
- Jeff Harteam
- Hong Kong
- -----Original Message-----
- From: realtraders@yahoogroups.com [
mailto:realtraders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Robert
Pardo at Mindspring
- Sent: Friday, March 28, 2008 6:13 AM
- To: realtraders@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: RE: [RT] Not merry for Meriwether - John Meriwether Must
Scramble Again - member dropped / ?
- Is the reason for
the ban on these articles because of the potential for useless or agenda
bearing content?
- Regards,
- Bob
- From:
realtraders@yahoogroups.com [
mailto:realtraders@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
BobsKC
- Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:54 PM
- To: realtraders@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: RE: [RT] Not merry for Meriwether - John Meriwether Must
Scramble Again - member dropped
- I too was interested in the
article and I read it. I would have also read it had there been a
link to it posted rather than embedding it.
- Bob
- At 05:35 PM 3/27/2008, you wrote:
- Having worked with John many years ago at Salamon Brothers, I was
very interested in the story.
- I personally have no objection to good quality material like this
being posted to the group.
- Regards,
- Bob Pardo
- From: realtraders@yahoogroups.com [ mailto:realtraders@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Mark Simms
- Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:55 PM
- To: realtraders@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: RE: [RT] Not merry for Meriwether - John Meriwether
Must Scramble Again - member dropped
- Can someone tell me what the difference is between placing a LINK
into the email message
- versus the embedded FULL TEXT ?
- No difference IMHO except that the embedded technique is more
convenient.
- From:
realtraders@yahoogroups.com [ mailto:realtraders@yahoogroups.com] On
Behalf Of Clyde Lee(swb)
- Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 3:21 PM
- To: realtraders@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: [RT] Not merry for Meriwether - John Meriwether Must
Scramble Again
- Bob,
- Even though you don't like the idea it seems
- that in the short run you may have to go to
- monitoring messages since your sense of
- the behavior of members does not seem to
- be correct ! ! !
- Clyde
- ----- Original Message -----
- From: Deosaran Bisnath
- To: realtraders@yahoogroups.com
- Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 12:50 PM
- Subject: [RT] Not merry for Meriwether - John Meriwether Must
Scramble Again
-
A Decade Later,
-
John Meriwether
-
Must Scramble
Again
- LTCM Founder Has Tough Time
- Stemming Losses at New Funds;
- A Withdrawal Deadline Nears
- By JENNY STRASBURG
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