Russell McMahon wrote, in part:

>"Defending human rights worldwide".
>         http://www.hrw.org/home.html

Russell:

I, like others here, very much enjoy the little off-topic tidbits
that you post. I sometimes spend more time than I ought reading
through the pages you send!

But, perhaps it would be better to stick to technical and scientific
issues and avoid politics. In the present case, surely it would seem
that human rights are something we all support, but, for example,
you may not have noticed that there is at least one prolific poster
(whose posts are invariably well-informed, interesting, and useful)
who comes from a country whose government systematically denies
human rights to a captive population of several millions, and which
is repeatedly condemned, appropriately so in my opinion, by Human
Rights Watch for its racist, immoral, and murderous actions. To
avoid useless off-topic debates that might offend some of the best
list members, perhaps we should stick to technical issues and leave
the politics to other lists? Just a thought.

Michael V

Thank you for reading my little posting.


_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.

--
http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us!
email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body