I dunno Rob, it all got a bit too predictable early on;
It started out with a piece of news that certainly got me interested,
As soon as it dived off into a political and then personal discussion it
lost much of its value except as entertainment. Unfortunately flame wars
dont entertain to many of us any more, you can go plenty of places to
observe those.
I found myself reading the various barrages just in case one wasn't and held
some useful information, in most cases I was disappointed. Then someone
went and changed the subject which made it worse.
Anyhoo, now I've added my 2 cents worth (roughly 1 American cent - I cant
work up the energy to check the current exchange rate and be more precise)
so I cant complain too much about the dross, can I?
Hopefully, the conflagration doesn't re-erupt......perhaps without SA, the
combatants can target each other better and we wont have the missiles
dropping little packages in our mailboxes on the way past.
ps. Your local paper must be even more local than ours - at least we get
reports of shipping movements. Yawn...
Cheers
Russ
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: MapInfo List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 2:01 PM
Subject: MI RE: Recent burn victims
> I've been on this list for 5 years now, and maybe the flaming was getting
a
> bit too personal, but I rather have enjoyed the occasional departures from
> the "My printer is giving me this error".
>
> An international slugging match involving an assortment of views from an
> obviously well informed military analyst who has been there, an assorted
> bunch of US citizens with the full range of views is certainly better
> than the local paper (which concentrates on which world leader is coming
for
> a visit or what to do about dive operators leaving tourists out on the
> reef).
>
>
> Robert Crossley
> Wild Lime
> Suite 1, 169 Newell St
> CAIRNS 4870 AUSTRALIA
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill Thoen
> Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2000 4:53 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: MI ENOUGH! (was Wide open GPS - no more SA...)
>
>
> Dimitri Rotow wrote:
> > No problem! The original posting by Bill Thoen (on SA and GPS, not a
> MapInfo
> > specific topic) was cross-posted to MapInfo-L, so that's where the
replies
> > also went. I don't subscribe to MapInfo-L, so I supposed if Bill Thoen
> > started a thread in your list on this subject and others from your List
> > continued it was OK by your List interests. - I stand corrected.
>
> This is a classic case of a thread wandering from "off-topic but
> relevant" to "polemic and irrelevant." News about turning off SA
> isn't strictly a MapInfo topic, but I felt that it's REAL NEWS to
> anyone who uses any GIS/mapping software and GPS, so I also
> crossposted to MapInfo-L. Using that original message as a base
> to launch a missive calling the US government criminal is really
> stretching it, IMHO, but what the heck... here it's still a free
> country. Besides, we haven't had a good flame war for ages, so
> thanks for the entertainment, but don't use me a shield to defend
> your actions.
>
> On the other side I think that the argument that a subject should
> be banned just because it is off-topic is weak justification at
> best. What one usually wants to say when one uses that argument
> is, "You have your head so far up your butt your alimentary canal
> looks like a Klein bottle. So get lost; you're out of order."
> Rules have their place, but reason makes a better argument.
>
> Lighten up, folks! Or fight back with wit and a sense of humor.
> (not that I haven't been known to boil up into an incoherent
> purple thunderhead on occasion, grumbling invectives and hurling
> epithets like lightning... but you know what I mean.)
>
> - Bill Thoen
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