Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 18:23:21 -0700
Reply-To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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From: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject: Re: Westfalia Pop-Top Screws - Call It a Sclew
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It's not really a subject that's up for debate. To keep things civil
(and to be gentlemen - ladies, too) we've agreed to discuss only
Vanagons on this list.
Even on Fridays, when standards are relaxed a bit, any humor should
contain Vanagon content.
Karl Wolz
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
Behalf Of
> William Alexander
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2004 5:05 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Westfalia Pop-Top Screws - Call It a Sclew
>
> I agree - it's too off topic. I do believe this is the most important
> election of my lifetime - and have a very strong opinion about it's
> outcome, but I believe many of us own Vanagon's so we can escape from
> the world that these politicians create. Lets not let that world
invade
> our digital escape as well. I mean - if people want to argue on a
> friday - lets argue about whether Trey or Jerry would win in the
> groove-debate...
>
>
>
> On Oct 1, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Mark Edwards wrote:
>
> >> oK,
> >> HOw about we limit this to one week. I'm voting for Kerry
because
> >> of
> >> what has happened to the logging in upper part of PA.....
> >
> > I would vote that we ban such topics completely, just like we did
with
> > guns. There is no way to reign it in, no way it would ever not spill
> > over
> > into a second, third, and more days. In fact, I would rather see
> > firearms
> > talk going around, rather than having to put up with everyone's rant
> > about
> > who hates who more, and who they think will be honest and can "fix
> > America" in four years all by themself. Its a stupid topic, its
> > inflammatory, and I can only speak for myself, but I don't
appreciate
> > having put forth so much effort in NOT responding and stating my own
> > views, which would avail all of us absolutely nothing.
> >
> > Some of us are like alchoholics on subjects like this, and its not
> > easy to
> > stay 'sober' when someone pours a drink all over us. :-)
> >
> > It especially irritates me because just as in the NFL and the NBA,
the
> > instigator is hardly ever called for a penalty or a foul, its the
> > person
> > who "fights back" that gets the brunt of the grief from everyone
else
> > here
> > if one chooses to express an opposing POV.
> >
> > I don't think it has any place in a forum such as this, and it ought
> > not
> > be tolerated. As much as I don't like to burden others, this is
> > exactly
> > what a moderator or list owner is for, so either Jim, or whomever he
> > designates in his absence, has to speak up, or it will become open
> > season.
> > Surely the next month is not going to trigger a lot of emotions and
> > attitudes. There are plenty of lists and groups where one can go to
> > scream
> > day and night along with others who seem to have the time to do so.
> >
> > Can we really afford to have our archives filled with rhetoric,
> > flames, OT
> > opinions, and the drivel that always results from someone dropping
the
> > political bomb on us?
> >
> > I won't expand on who I will vote for and why, but I can say that I
> > would
> > vote to put politics off the Vanagon list.
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> > One of the many "dumb-ass consumers"
> >
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