From: Sonny Heath (sonny@defuniak.com)
Date: Sun Oct 03 2004 - 11:09:27 PDT
Joe,
What is better,
1. Activism in the world
OR
2. Terrorist activities in the streets of your hometown?
Sonny
----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Garrett <j.garrett@verizon.net>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] OFF TOPIC STUFF Like Re: [MV] ebay Kerry etc.
>
> I just have to laugh about this. The complaining replies now outnumber
the
> offending notes by almost two to one.
>
> You are right on the money that ignoring an off topic note is more
effective
> than replying to it.
>
> It is quite natural that the politics of the current presidential race
would
> boil over onto this list. Under the covers, this campaign is about
> America's use of its military. One candidate is an isolationist, urging
us
> to mind our own business. The other candidate is aggressively pushing an
> agenda of activism in the world. What is being debated is the appropriate
> use of the US military.
>
> Joe Garrett
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Military Vehicles Mailing List [mailto:mil-veh@mil-veh.org]On
> Behalf Of Ron
> Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 8:29 AM
> To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
> Subject: [MV] OFF TOPIC STUFF Like Re: [MV] ebay Kerry etc.
>
>
> To all....
>
> Make no mistake, Arthur IS out there.... I think he just has better things
> to do in life than play policeman to a group of dopes who claim to be law
> abiding adults but who think that the rules of the list apply only to the
> other dopes on the list. It is probably as disturbing to him to watch the
> list reduced to anarchy as it is for a parent to watch their child get
> involved with the wrong crowd at school.
> I sent him an email a couple of weeks back when I was unable to get my
> new address to 'subscribe' before my old provider shut down my account due
> to a geographical move. I received a response from him in LESS than 1 and
a
> half hours after sending my message to him. He went to work immediately to
> figure out why my subscribe request was getting ok'd by the automailer but
> then just sat in the queue of his system, going no where. As you can see,
I
> am back on. Thanks, Arthur!!
> I really would not blame him if he did pull the plug on the list
> someday. For those who are relatively new to the list and those 'oldsters'
> with tendencies towards Alzheimer's, like me, please remember that Arthur
> agreed to host the list as a favor for a friend who had an interest in HMV
> collecting. The friend is no longer even on the list, so Arthur has no
> 'skin' in this game.
> The easiest way to kill the 'off topic' threads is to ignore them. Do
> not reply to them on list. For that matter, don't reply at all!
Eventually,
> the dopes may realize that nobody is responding or rising to the bait. It
> WON'T become an OT thread unless YOU reply to it!!!!
> After 3 months or so of just 'reading the mail' from the sidelines and
> being unable to post, I hope to have learned be a good citizen here in
the
> future and behave, unlike some of our normally helpful folks on the list
> whose fun meters appear to be 'pegged' on MAX of late due to the large
> number of OT posts and threads.
> Though with some of the silly political and ignorant posts by some
> here, on a world wide list, it WILL be difficult to just ignore the bait
> and read on in search of HMV posts.....
>
> Pontification rant over,
> Regards, Ronzo
> Have Stare, Will Travel
> Collector of OD Lawn Art and Curios
>
>
>
>
>
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