RE: ATM - Starry Messanger best wishes

["Scordato, Thomas" <TSCORDA@alleghenypower.com>]

The people at the Starry Messenger provided a real nice service for many for
many years.  Unfortunately just like Home Depot is closing the local in town
hardware store and the guy who made buggy whips went belly up, so too has
TSM due to free classified computer venues and changing times.

I purchased a lot of goodies through this paper and wish the publishers
well.

I am glad they sold the list as I will get more info/junk mail on astronomy.

Tom Scordato

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   astrojoe@erols.com [SMTP:astrojoe@erols.com]
        Sent:   Tuesday, December 21, 1999 8:00 PM
        To:     Richard Schwartz
        Cc:     atm@shore.net
        Subject:        Re: ATM - Starry Messanger-- the final insult


        What's interesting is that only 2810 names were supporting that
        publication. I would have thought with the 100,000 plus circulation
of
        both Sky and Tel and Astronomy that the number would have been much
        larger.......


        Joe Castoro











        Richard Schwartz wrote:
        > 
        > I have received a letter from Steve Cariddi, "publisher" of the
Starry
        > Messanger, offering the sale of 2810 names and addresses of
amateur
        > astronomers and telescope makers.   The price of this list is
$400.
        > 
        > If you were a subscriber to TSM, and are receiving sixteen tons of
junk
        > mail, you know know  who the guilty party is:  somebody who, in
your
        > innocence, you trusted.
        > 
        > What is $400 worth?
        > 
        > . . . Richard