Alan P. Hayes wrote:
I've been following the political discussion and I need to say that I think this list is not properly named. Instead the Pentax Discussion Mailing List it should really be called the Pentax Digression Mailing List. It wouldn't even change the initials, but it would so much more accurately reflect what really goes on here!
If there were a contest to determine the world's greatest deliberative mailing list, I think we would have a shot.
I belong to another list that would certainly give THIS list a run for it's money.
But, most of the rank liberal folks here would be loathe to even have me pronounce it's name.
So, it shall remain nameless, but I'll tell you what...
Scrub and carefully remove or transmogrify the subject matter from both lists, and only allow the off-topic material to remain, you quite literally would not be able to tell one from the other. Seriously!
You could throw all the sentences in a bag, and randomly scater them in message after message, and you wouldn't be able to tell.
What I'm saying is, that's how folks from all over, all walks of interest, deviate from the subject matter. Everybody does it!
And you know what? That's precisely what keeps a list membership in the middle hundreds. It's more like family...
keith whaley
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