> You mean that you don't like racist, homophobic, moral > minority, far right rantings in your mailbox in the morning.
It's not positions on issues per se, but the mindlessness of the pounding rants. Enough already! And when I think that this junk has kept others from contributing their thoughts, displaced them as it were, it's all the more aggravating. > It's the highlight of my day endeavoring to find a logical > argument in the rants. I have yet to find more than three in > the last four years, but there must be hope. > Free speech is one thing, but this is an international forum > not just a US and there a lot of the OT is highly offensive > to the vast majority of the population that aren't US citizens. I truly hope that people see through their garbage. More than once I've had to spend time posting to defend a previously stated point of view from yet another attack from another angle. I didn't mind at first, but then it went on and on, endlessly. It's like some kind of 'raging bull' tactic, where the winner is the one who must keeps coming back and back until everyone leaves or gets worn down. This forum has suffered from the loss of interesting people at the hand of their spewing, and I think that's bad. A comment: We don't have any native Americans on this list, that I know of, so we'll all of foreign descent. I know that my own ancestors were from Europe; others from other cultures around the world. We are truly a melting pot, if nothing else. What made us special, once upon a time, was that we held certain ideals above all else, and we were brought up to believe the rest of the world admired us for it. As you can see, we've lost huge ground in this area, and one reason for that is that we have goons who take the right of free speech to mean people want to listen to their crap over and over, ad nausea. > At the end of the day, the list is a private one, owned and > maintained by Ed and he has to have the final say. Ed has done so much for us that we can't reasonably ask him to do another thing. Okay, here's one suggestion, what I think Jack Welch would do: poll and chop. That is, he'd poll his managers to rank their people by their 'value to the enterprise' - and then summarily chop off the bottom part of the list, the people who are not performing. He would rationalize this with (a) these people aren't right for this job and should be doing something else anyway, (b) it sends a powerful message to the company: that good people don't have anything to worry about, but those who are just passing time should keep their resumes current, and (c) it makes the company more productive overall by reminding everyone to pay attention to the company's goals. Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't it our goal to share and learn together? We are builders, right? Prodding, challenging and controversy are good things, but pounding garbage into our mailboxes is just an aggravating waste of everyone's time. I wonder if anyone has software to do this kind of polling? I'd think such a product would sell to businesses who don't have it as well. In fact, if I weren't already out of investment money, I would do it myself. I can see a way to do it that would be simple and to the point. Bill > Maybe an [HOOTS] tag for Hatred Offensive Off Topic Sh17 > > My 0.02 of a Euro > > ::a _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
