17 Jul
2005
17 Jul
'05
1:30 a.m.
From: "Joe R." <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com>
here.
Thanks for speaking up; I'm on the road, so I haven't been getting to my
email as quickly as usual.
Vince
>That's ridiculous! Sellam is not crying that
he couldn't afford to win
one
>or two specific auctions because of Dennis K(full
surname unknown). Some
>people may not like Sellam's word choice, but he's speaking up in defense
of
all of us.
He's not speaking for me! I respect Sellam but I think he's wrong
I know Dennis (and I know his last name) and I see no
reason to complain
about what he buys on E-bay. It's a free country and he's free to buy
whatever he wants and can afford. You don't know Dennis or what his
reasons
or goals are and you and Sellam have no more right to
complain about him
than you do about someone like Al Kossow who ALWAYS gets what he goes
after
on E-bay.
Joe's pretty much echoed my opinions here; I don't see any reason for
causing
dkdkk trouble. I think he's doing what many of us might do with an
unlimited
budget.
>Would you be happy, James, because it ups the
value of your C64 or TRS-80
>from $20 to $500? Or would you be ticked because some idiot who didn't
do
>his homework is crashing the entire market for
those machines?
>
>That's just hypothetical; I'm sure we all strongly hope that Dennis K.
turns
>out to be responsible in the end, since according
to Bill Maddox, he was
>formerly associated with the Boston Computer Museum.
From what I can tell, he's a collector of vintage
computing paraphanalia,
same
as any of the rest of us.
>Attention, Vince (vrs at msn.com) -- you're
the only person on cctalk who
said
you directly
know who Dennis K. is.
Vince isn't the only one that knows Dennis. I know him and I've known
him for a couple of years. I didn't speak up sooner in the hope that this
rediculous thread would die on it's own but when I won't stand by when you
start slandering people that you don't know!