Kinds of OT's/Ric's answer

[ranjacob@umich.edu]

Ric,

I agree very much with your answer below. I agree that it's some-times 
difficult to go through so many Inbox items when the OT's
are especially heavy, but for the time being I accept that as a
minor price to pay for both open discussion and ordinary human 
conversation.  I also agree that it's when personal attacks or
name-calling (against list correspondents) get going that things
get bad.  Since I've subscribed I've been struck by the very wide
(and inevitable) range of social or political choices, and also
how opposed people can agree on musical or craft issues.

Thanks for your post!

Randy Jacob
University of Michigan Library
--On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 5:01 PM +0100 Richard Brekne 
<Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> wrote:

>
>
> "Kevin E. Ramsey" wrote:
>
> Ric, I don't know about some of the others on the list. Sometimes, and it
> depends on my ability to absorb B.S. on that particular day, I can't let
> something go unchallenged. That would be like silently acquiescing. I
> believe it was Edmund Burk who said, "The only thing necessary for Evil
> to Triumph over Good, is for good men to do nothing."     I just am not
> going to go 'round and 'round with these cretins anymore, that's all.
> Kevin E. Ramsey, R.P.T.--
>
>
>
> Well Hey there Kev... :)... I have no problem really with any of this. My
> point was simply that it seems like many who complain most about the
> political posts are the first to jump in with the big throat responses
> and escalate matters.
>
> My own pet peeve is when things get personal. Theres just no need for
> that, and it seems to me thats when things get nasty ... not before.
>
> As far as the rest of it.... I dont see a lot of difference between
> political OT posts and other OT posts..... except the fact that the
> "ahems", "amens", "boy you got that rights" and "chuckle chuckles" are in
> the vast majority.
>
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> UiB, Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
>