Guys and goils, this is starting to become one of
those threads that threatens to drive folks away.
Right now, we either need to be civil and swallow our
pride, or decide that we cannot take it anymore and
skulk away. 170 people are getting these messages and
are either (1) reading them and laughing at us, or (2)
becoming tired of the rancor.
As Richard Navarrete noted, it didn't start as a big
argument or complaint about imaging other off-topic
thing...but it apparently DID start because someone
has some pent-up emotional issues about how TAC "ought
to be." This is really a war of wills. People appear
to have made up their minds. I suggest we accept this
and end it here. Either that, or please take it
private - because I'm one of those guys who gets sick
of using the delete key (believe it or not!), and I'm
not even *allowed* to.
Bruce Jensen
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--- Richard Crisp <rdcrisp@No-Spam> wrote:
> 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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