Mark Wagner wrote:
> Crisp said...
>
> >I've received as many pieces of mail from folks that lurk that want to see
> >the images as I have seen diatribes from old hands that want to control
> >the content of the postings.
>
> There is nothing stopping you from starting your own list or using
> TAC-imaging, is there?
OR TAC-Scrap_Aluminum_Tubing or TAC-Green-Laser or TAC-Megrez_80 or......
To me the bottom line is that there will be postings that do not cater to
everyone's particular interests. Why make an issue out of it? It's not like a
few links to images are to people having sex with animals or mutilated corpses.
There are people that have stated clearly they want to see them and they want
to seem them on TAC. Why is skipping over them so difficult for some of you? Do
you have to read every posting and have to feel that every posting somehow
meets your model of what constitutes an acceptable post? Or is it that you
have a compulsion to control others behavior?
>
>
> Why do you insist on arguing about the intent of TAC, its purpose, and
> trying to bully your wishes onto an already existing list? I can tell you
> I have heard a good number of private replies too, and they agree with
> Rich's and Jason's perception of your approach and intent.
There are about half Republicans and about half Democrats in this country as
gauged by the last election results. There are pretty close to a 50/50 opinion
split on just about anything you can imagine. From what I can glean from
postings and email there seems to be a similar split here. Why is skipping a
post you are uninterested in so difficult? Why must you tell the other half
that they cannot have what they want on this list? Is this a power thing or
what?
>
>
> There are many good options available to you other than being disruptive.
I am not the one that is being disruptive. I just posted some links that others
said they wanted to see. It is those that made issue of those posts that are
being disruptive. I skip posts I don't want to read. Why can't you and the
others?
>
>
> Hey... maybe we should start a thread about transmissions in Ford
> trucks. After all, we use vehicles to go observing, don't we? Then we can
> talk about our favorite flavor of yogurt, since we all eat in order to have
> the energy to do amateur astronomy. Don't like those ideas? Too bad,
> we're gonna talk about them anyway, in order to "evolve" this
> list. What? There are other lists where you can talk about those
> topics? So, what.... I want to do it here!
fine, and just feel free to go ahead. I will skip those posts just like I
skipped the ones that don't look interesting to me.
>
>
> Sounds like a great method to destroy a list.
It is all in the eye of the beholder. But why should you care, Mark, since you
have already packed up and moved on?
For me I intend to skip what I am not interested in and read what I am. If I
have something to say, then I plan to say it.
rdc
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