Path: utzoo!attcan!ontmoh!peter
From: peter@ontmoh.UUCP (Peter Renzland)
Newsgroups: can.usrgroup
Subject: Re: bickering about politics (was Re: Blasphemy!)
Message-ID: <612256389.12178@ontmoh.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 89 07:13:10 GMT
References: <1763@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca>
Distribution: tor
Organization: Ontario Ministry of Health -- Decision Support, Toronto, Canada
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(C. Harald Koch) whines:

> 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.

Same to you!

> There seems to be nothing but political maneuverings going on.

Yes, there are some folks who are less mature, less tactful, and who exercise
worse judgement than some others when deciding what to say and how to say it,
but at least they have something to say, and some actually do constructive
things.

How would you characterise your own contribution?

> I would love to hear that I am wrong. In the mean time, if you guys are

If this is a characteristic communication of yours, I'm sure you get to hear
it often enough :-)

> going to keep "bickering" (friendly or otherwise), can you keep it down to a
> dull roar? (Perhaps email would be more appropriate?)

If bickering is dull, finding nothing better than bickering to bicker about
is just plain disgusting!

Lest anyone dismiss all of this as mere quibbling -- please consider that
it is precisely the gratuitous efforts at censorship of open discussion of
policy matters promoted by the uninformed and uninvolved and apathetic,
that leaves the field open to the self-interested.

> C. Harald Koch  NTT Systems, Inc., Toronto, Ontario

-- 
Peter Renzland @ Ontario Ministry of Health  416/964-9141  peter@ontmoh.UUCP
/usr/group/cdn Director   --    Unix Unanimous Founder