Re: IGG Alert! (was Re: KATE Alert!/TORI Alert!)

[rhogan@chaph.usc.edu (Ron Hogan)]

chrisw@fciad2.bsd.uchicago.edu (chris williams) writes:

>In article <2e8bdd$rqc@hydra.unm.edu> Lazlo write:
>>> He told another close friend, who called about another artist and started
>>> chatting, that Kate Bush fans were suckers who would pay practically any
>>> price for stuff.

>>As impolitic as it might be to say so to one of your friends, Chris, this
>>is completely correct.  Nobody would be bothering to produce the stacks of
>>aftermarket colleKTorscum trinkets that litter the pages of Goldmine if it
>>wasn't.

>   Sure, many of us are checkwriting sheep, willing to buy anything,
>but it is an obnoxious attitude. And I believe that people have a
>right to know exactly who the are dealing with.

Um, I agree with your basic original point, that IGG's alerts are annoying
and, to use my own word, "tacky", but I can't go along with this...

...basically, you seem to be saying to me, "it's okay if we're suckers, but
it's obnoxious when other people point this out".  And if you believe that
people have a right to know exactly who they are dealing with, then people
have a right to know if potential buyers are suckers or not.

Ron
mind you, it took me a while to figure out
that Jorn was lying and you didn't really
talk to Kate on Prodigy...