RE: No more Fraudactylus or dinosaur skin items on eBay postings

[Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org]

Since Mary runs the site, she (and Mickey Rowe) can set the rules. You
can always start your own and set the rules, as has Stephen Pickering or
join his. No one has twisted your arm to join DML.
Ken

Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D. 
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology 
and Chief Preparator 
Department of Earth Sciences 
Denver Museum of Nature & Science 
2001 Colorado Blvd. 
Denver, CO 80205 USA

ph: 303-370-6392/ or 6403 
fx: 303-331-6492 


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Mike Milbocker
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 7:47 AM
> To: MKIRKALDY@aol.com
> Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: RE: No more Fraudactylus or dinosaur skin items on 
> eBay postings
> 
> I found your post, below, very disturbing. It shows a bias 
> that is both unscientific and censorial. Who are you to say a 
> fossil is not worthy of scientific scrutiny. I find myself 
> questioning your credentials to host this web site.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu 
> [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of MKIRKALDY@aol.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 10:04 PM
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: No more Fraudactylus or dinosaur skin items on eBay postings
> 
> 
> (Hopefully plain text this time.)
> 
> Please stop posting about Fraudactylus and the T. rex "skin" 
> item on   eBay.
> Since the first item has a fossil leaf embedded, we are  fast 
>  approaching the
> rule on posting about fossils for sale.   Whatever the skin  
> is, it isn't
> dinosaur science.  A posting about  real dinosaur skin for 
> sale  would bring a week-long time  out.
> 
> Cans of worms should not be opened.
> 
> Mary Kirkaldy
> Dinosaur  Mailing List Co-owner
> 
>