[Rhodes22-list] Alex How to quit this email list

[Rik Sandberg]

Hi Alex,

You know me, I generally say what I think ..... maybe I don't say it very well .... :-)

I was just thinking about you, wishing for your very capable support on a couple of these issues the last couple days. As usual, Bill E. is excersising his considerable but misguided writing skills as I'm sure you have probably noticed. Unfortunately, his attitude that we can just build a campfire and all sit around it singing kum ba ya and it will somehow convince all the bad or mean spirited people in the world that we are harmless and they should leave us alone, hasn't changed. 'Nuff about that.

What is the greatest asset about my current boat? Hmmm ..... I think it's greatest asset is, it can sail in darn near anything you can throw at it. What do I like best about it? ROOM! It's got a ton of it compared to most boats it's size. BUT, nobody will ever get me to say anything bad about our R-22. I still think it is a great boat and ours treated us very well. I just turned out that it wasn't quite the right boat for us. I may get another one someday if situations change.

How have you and Pamela been doing. Is business going well? I heard about your flood a while back, that's a bummer. Some of us here on the list miss you guys.

Rik 
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Bell <alexbell at lpmonline.net>
Sent: May 28, 2005 11:26 AM
To: sanderico at earthlink.net, 
	The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] How to quit this email list

Rik,

How bout steping up to the plate and saying what you have on your mind. 
Go ahead and take a stand here.

What is the greatest asset of your current boat?  (there's a boat 
question for you) Sorry for the cynicism, but I just scanned a bunch of 
stuff that got my blood boiling here. Being one of the "support our 
troops" kind of people, I really get urinated off when I see people 
telling Phil and wife "what you should do" and questioning their email 
addresses etc. What a load of crap.

Alex Bell
long time list member, but soon to be a "former" member

Rik Sandberg wrote:

> Graham,
>
> DUH...... Seems to me, the list belongs to the people who formed it 
> and use it everyday. The rules are whatever they (read WE) decided 
> they should be. I don't know what - "and any other topic of interest 
> to it's members" - is hard for you to understand. You claim to hunger 
> for information about your boat, yet I see NO questions about your 
> boat on the list from you. Had you tried asking one you may have been 
> surprised at the speed and volume of the replies. But, alas you don't 
> even bother to introduce yourself, you just lurk and expect us to 
> repeat some mantra of R-22 information over and over so you won't have 
> to expend any effort ..... sorry Bud ....it ain't gonna' happen. If 
> you want that kind of service ..... send money. I'm sure several of us 
> can provide you with many pages of pure, unadulterated advice if the 
> price is right.
>
> So, I'm sure you're already gone and I am wasting my breath, but I'll 
> say, I can't say I'm sorry your gone, anyway.
>
> Rik
>
> Graham Stewart wrote:
>
>> For those who are frustrated, or worse, with the endless idle chatter,
>> political diatribes and other matters unrelated to the Rhodes and, in my
>> view,  NOT in compliance with the charter, you can quit the list by 
>> going to
>> http://www.rhodes22.org/mailman/listinfo/rhodes22-list and selecting the
>> appropriate option. For the rest, I think it is a shame that some 
>> genuinely
>> useful information gets totally overwhelmed by those who seem to 
>> think this
>> is a chat line and literally drives away those who have no interest 
>> in or
>> time for 40 mostly irrelevant messages daily. I can't believe that I 
>> am the
>> only one who has quit - as I will as soon as this message is sent.
>>
>> Thanks to those who answered questions and tried to stay on topic.
>> "The rhodes-list at sailnet.net group will be open to discussion of all
>> subjects specifically referring to Rhodes sailboats or Rhodes sailors."
>>
>>
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