[veltro]

Nemo, give me a break! I am a researcher, and an amateur one, to be precise (meaning that I have never earned a living with my researches).

I have never and will never bid for a photo, both because it is against my concept of research and because I cannot imagine to spend insane amounts of money (which I don't even have) in this way...

Nevertheless, Ed's postings have allowed me to contact in some cases the owners of particularly relevant material for my researches and obtain from them electronic scans of the photographs, once explained who I was and the purpose of my request, which would never harm their sale.

You seem to think that all the rest of the world is composed by "too smart" guys who want to gain advantages to make their collection bigger, but I cannot accept your way of thinking as well as the conclusions you make.

If Ed will stop posting the links to the photographs, he has all rights to do so, as well as I have the right to ask him not to do that. What I cannot stand is that you should imply that my request (together with those of many of us) means I'm begging to continue to use illicit advantages or worse...

The world isn't in black and white only, just for your very own knowledge.