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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 3234729, member: 71723"]Call my tendency to tersely and critically address the Internet segment, without being PART OF the Internet segment, "The Essence of what it means to be Kurt Bellman". I am verbally pugnacious and do not shrink from controversy. I THRIVE on it. It's what I DO FOR A LIVING. Cindy's swipes, while I don't have a recording of it, centered around the Internet segment's overinflated view of their knowledge, a swipe with which I concur. If you don't get to major shows with talk presenters, you ARE missing among the "best stuff" in numismatics. I can do a 5-day show and NEVER ONCE visit the bourse floor. You can interact with ALL the "powers that be" in numismatics person-to-person and even occasionally one-on-one, yes, even get a long-held question considered by Q. David Bowers himself. He may not know the precise answer to your question, but he will 100% of the time refer you to another person in attendance who can. The Internet does not often work that way. In it's early days, it used to, but it doesn't any more. It's now become almost exclusively an advertising medium and that's sad. It's all marketing, all the time, and that REALLY hacks me off.[/QUOTE]