Date:         Mon, 2 Jul 2001 10:13:26 -0400
Reply-To:     "Horace K. Sawyer" <hksawyer@CATT.COM>
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From:         "Horace K. Sawyer" <hksawyer@CATT.COM>
Subject:      Re: Free Speech on the Vanagon List
Comments: To: Donald Baxter <onanov@MINDSPRING.COM>
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At 07:48 AM 7/2/01 -0500, Donald Baxter wrote:
>I couldn't have said this better myself.  If my mailbox keeps getting
>fillled with drivel like this thread I will have to unsubscribe after
>being a listmember since 1994.  Let's get the list back to the
>discussion of Vanagons.  It's a mistake to think that anyone but the
>government is in the business of guaranteeing anyone's free speech
>rights--your employers isn't, and this list isn't.


Then you should come up with a list of topics that you don't want to see
discussed, and I will come up with mine, etc, etc, etc.!

Result:  Not workable because it will be dull, boring, leads to
disintegration of the list.  Watch and see.  I hope this does not come to
pass.

Please reference my post just made on the subject of leaving the list or
staying and learning.

Even the staunchest VW / Vanagon enthusiasts run into trouble every now and
then.  Life is not perfect.  This "drivel" as you say will pass.  But you
can be assured, there will be more of what you consider "drivel" to come;
from someone else yet unsubscribed.  Someone maybe not as smart as you are,
maybe younger, maybe with a different world view theory on vanagons
altogether.  Still, the whole complex picture is one that is to be nurtured
and appreciated, not stamped out with authority and rules designed to quash
all that is not perfect.   Let's not make it an inquisition any more so
than necessary.  There will be personal clashes, and there will be
misunderstandings.  Life does not allow one freedom from avoidance of these.

No hostility intended.

hk