[ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics on the list. my .01

[Steve]

Good one, Rik:-)  Hope you had a good Thanksgiving. 
Your right on the money here.  Beside, I have gotten
use to hearing Roger scouting trip, Rummy-I talked to
him about everything & Michael & I have been toushing
cannon balls back & forth since the beginning of this
list.  I remember when the list first got started;
there were only a handful of us on the list.  It sure
was boring till it finally built up to around 100
members.  Now we have a little community.  The list is
good the way we have it.  And like you said, if
someone has a question; someone will come up with the
answer.  Believe me; we have talked about it all!!!!
Steve


--- Rik Sandberg <sanderico at earthlink.net> wrote:
> To all on the list,
> 
> The thing I find most interesting about these on/off
> topic discussions is: 
> Those that are constantly complaining about the
> topic, very rarely post a 
> boating question. If we all sat around waiting for
> most of these folks to say 
> something, there would be nothing here but
> emptiness. AND no point in coming 
> here.
> 
> So, all you "topic police", if you want someone to
> be here to answer your 
> questions when you finally come up with one, you
> might consider not asking 
> that all the veteran owner/sailors be bored to tears
> while they wait. If you 
> are going to insist on the boredom, soon there will
> be no one here to help 
> you.
> 
> If you have a boating question, then post it.
> Everyone here is more than 
> happy to talk about boats and will help however they
> can if someone will just 
> post the question. But, it seems you very rarely
> hear from the "topic police" 
> except when they decide it's time to bitch about the
> topics. Then it seems 
> they have lots to say. I wonder, are topic
> discussions considered "boat 
> related"???
> 
> Rik
> 
> On 12/01/2003 01:17 pm, you wrote:
> > Todd,
> >
> > While agreeing with much of what you had to say,
> you should be aware that
> > when the charter was adopted it was done extremely
> democratically.  There
> > were probably 100+ of us on the list at the time,
> and we worked quite hard
> > on the charter.  Michael did not impose it, and
> has accepted every
> > modification.
> >
> > Fred,
> >
> > While agreeing with much of what you had to say,
> and having taken a similar
> > position in the past, I think it has become
> obvious over time that the only
> > way to hold the attention of the experienced list
> members who provide most
> > of the answers is to allow them to chat off-topic.
> >
> > Bill Effros
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Todd Tavares
> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics on
> the list. my .01
> >
> >
> > Fred,
> >
> >     I am probably way out of my place here, but
> being on the receiving end
> > of MJM's wrath, all the while ignorant of the
> content and make up of this
> > list here;  This is basically Michael's list (and
> others).  We exist here
> > because of the time, patience, energy, and money
> Micheal (and a few
> > others?)spend to administrate this list-serv.
> >
> >    Michael has a life and a family, and probably
> much more imortant things
> > to do with his time.  He choses to run this list
> server for his and all of
> > our pleasure and enjoyment.  Michael has given me
> the "take you computer
> > and go down the road speech" before; and that's
> putting it mildly.  While
> > this list does have a charter, it is still the
> creation of MJM and not a
> > democracy.  If MJM has the stomach to put up with
> my nonsense, then he (and
> > all here) have the patience of saints.
> >
> >    So as far as the procedures for adopting,
> recalling and amending the
> > charter?  I don't thinks Robert's Rules apply
> here, but i may be wrong :-)
> >
> > Thanks All,
> >
> > Todd
> >    Not a sermon.....just a thought.
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