Path: utzoo!dciem!dretor.dciem.dnd.ca
From: chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
Subject: Re: bickering about politics (was Re: Blasphemy!)
Summary: Chill out. Suck on an ice-cube.
Message-ID: <1763@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Date: 26 May 89 14:12:00 GMT
References: <1989May22.165655.7471@telly.on.ca> <583@moore.UUCP>
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Reply-To: chk@dretor.dciem.dnd.ca (C. Harald Koch)
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IMHO, A user group is *supposed* to be a bunch of people who get together
periodically to discuss something of interest to them. In every user group
that I have belonged to (an Atari group, the Amiga Developer's Forum, a
model rocketry club, ...) the group tried hard to keep things as informal as
possible. Politics were specifically disallowed, with a couple of minor
exceptions (*somebody* has to organize the thing!)

I have never been to a UU meeting, or a /usr/group/cdn meeting. But from the
looks of things in this newsgroup/maillist lately, I don't want to either.
There seems to be nothing but political maneuverings going on.

I would love to hear that I am wrong. In the mean time, if you guys are
going to keep "bickering" (friendly or otherwise), can you keep it down to a
dull roar? (Perhaps email would be more appropriate?)

-- 
Grandpa Charnock's Law:	 | C. Harald Koch  NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario
You never really learn	 | chk@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca	   (long-term address)
to swear until you learn | chk@zorac.dciem.dnd.ca	      (my current job)
to drive.		 | chk@chkent.UUCP		    (my AMIGA at home)