My two cents: Seems like Scherrer was skirting the bounds of list policy while providing a valuable service to a list member. The list member expressed a need to find a hatch cover ASAP. Steve may have made a few bucks, but invested some time in the process. I'd say, let's not hard-time Scherrer, and let's use the back channel in the future. The list owner should chime in here somewhere. Steve and I disagree about some things, but I have always found him to be an up-front, honest guy with his agenda clearly on the table. His business is perhaps the best one of its type in Oregon (unsolicited testimonial -- to find out what Steve's business is, you'll have to email him: <aldercreek_at_qwest.net> I don't want to be accused of commercial use of the list). I agree with John that if the list becomes inundated with "responses" from dealers to inquiries that its value will be diminished ... to the Steve Scherrer's as well as the rest of us. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
At 11:35 AM 5/14/2002 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote: >I'd say, let's not hard-time Scherrer, and let's use the back channel in the >future. The list owner should chime in here somewhere. My mistake for forwarding the two messages earlier today, I should have left the thread dead... This is my response that went out yesterday to the first 3 involved in the thread. >I took Steve's response as a borderline response. The question was to the >mailing list in general. The answer was specific to someone who had an issue >getting equipment. Steve didn't mention anything else they sell. > >Wes mentioned GRO - without any idea if they had any in stock. > >I think it was fair to answer in public, particularly since there appears to be >supply issues, for at least one participant. > >If it was a common item, a public response would have been inappropriate. > >I do know that 2 of my local shops have VCP hatches in stock, so I don't >consider this to have been an obscure request, which would be more worthy of >a public response. As such it was a borderline call for being a public response, >from a vendor. > >I like the list to do it's best to run itself, I've got more than enough to do without >micromanaging the list. Please avoid anything that could be construed as >borderline, we've got lots of vendors on the list I really don't want to filter posts, >there is more than enough of that already(in particular unedited posts). > >kirk >(backchannel, where I feel this discussion belongs) *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************
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