On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:24:11 +1200 Russell McMahon wrote: > > ... despite the fact that I > > agree with his assessment of most (not all) Americans, we don't discuss > that > > on this list. > > Presumably you'll ban yourself for a day for making this supporting > assessment on list :-) > (I'm sure you could do with the well earned break from this noisy mob). > > More seriously - on looking back I see there were quite a few people talking > politics on my original solder thread (how do these things happen :-) ?) and > some quite stridently at that. Hopefully Floret Morgenstern (any relation to > the lawyer of Princess Bride fame I wonder?) was given fair warning of his > indiscretions. He didn't seem especially more rabid or out of line than > several other posters on the subject. > > I'm happy (enough) with the policy as otherwise it becomes just one large > political forum BUT I suspect a bit of leaning over backwards and several > hard kicks in advance of a coup de grace are in order. (Maybe this happened > offline?) Maybe needs to be another forum where PICKLISTers can duke it out---an Internet equivalent of "I dare you to come outside and say that". david -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.