From: dahoov2@cox.net   
      
   Actually, there are less than 300 members here.  At least 200 are not   
   here anymore (signed up and never came back or signed up and looked   
   and never came back; or posted once for a specific reason, got no   
   response and never came back).  Problably more I bet.  Then another 50   
   members rarely ever view this.  It's probably their emergency place to   
   get questions answered, hawk items or troll.  then the remaining 50,   
   about half of those just lurk.  they never post.  Most likely they   
   hope for addresses and use them to post elsewhere.   
      
   The remaining 25, of those, only half post here and there and don't   
   care about all this and probably just delete threads.  There is   
   probably a dozen people at most who read this.  About half of those   
   just laugh and occasionally put a one liner in or something.   
      
   It's the remainnig half dozen that care and keep going back and forth.   
   I hardly call it making a dent in the autograph world.   
      
   PS the grain of salt thing is the right thing to do.   
      
   On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:34:56 -0500, "Gummby3"   
    wrote:   
      
   >I'm not defending or condemning anybody.  I'm giving the benefit of   
   >the doubt, which I provide to anybody.  We're in a community of   
   >faceless screen names where anybody can say anything about anyone and   
   >not have to suffer the consequences.  Unless there is hard evidence   
   >that Strickler is forging  or has forged anything, it's unfounded.   
   >Have I purchased anything from him?  No.  I can't afford the   
   >extravagant prices that come with some of the autographs.  I'm simply   
   >reading what's being posted, which seems to have come out of left   
   >field very recently.  Just as I read all of the posts about Barefoot   
   >and the very odd accusations (non-autograph related) with a grain of   
   >salt, I'm doing the same here.  It's just my opinion.  Unless there is   
   >hard evidence: complaints, police reports, investigations (that are   
   >provable), then it's he said/he said and I'm just as right as the next   
   >person.  I have been in this hobby, not the business that it's morphed   
   >into, for almost 30 years.  I know that there are a lot of forged   
   >autographs out there.  Anybody that claims otherwise is mislead.  Did   
   >I go look at the autographs?  No.  Why should I.  I am not an expert   
   >and my findings would be baseless.  I definitely am not posting this   
   >to get into a dispute.  I am simply posting my opinion.  Everyone is   
   >entitled to an opinion until facts prove otherwise. :-)   
      
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