[ale] OT: Re: Fwd: Georgia Bill Would Prohibit Subsidies For Municpal Broadband - Slashdot

[Drifter]

The only reason I can read "Delete" on the key is because this is a new 
keyboard.  My last one finally died. But on that one, the black ink atop 
the "Delete" key was long gone.  This list will do that. :)

Sean

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On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 02:03:48 pm Brian MacLeod wrote:
> On 1/25/12 1:19 PM, mike at trausch.us wrote:
> > Aaron is an acquired taste.  He really is a nice guy.
> 
> On this, I can agree, despite my political leanings being very much
> different than his (though, I can see how some behaviors by some bad
> apples has led him to his views).
> 
> > But hey, see ya.  I guess if you can let a few words get in the way
> > of your experience here, we neither want nor need you here.  Aaron
> > is far from the only person to talk politics on the list, and for
> > that matter, you're (presumably, I could be wrong) perfectly
> > capable of ignoring the non-technical content.
> 
> Everyone is capable of ignoring or deleting emails.  We all know this,
> and we need to remember that this is always an option.  However,
> this...
> 
> > Oh, well.  Maybe you'll be back in the future.  If so, perhaps
> > you'll have grown some between now and then?
> > 
> > Have a nice life
> 
> ...is unnecessary. Andrew has a point that this topic is probably now
> poisoned from here on down, and as usually happens, the politically
> charged post is getting the most attention as of late, post wise.
> Fine, yay, we're (sort of) paying attention to politics (which we
> always should be doing, but a little more outside of this list).
> 
> But we don't need to be attacking members (departing or not). Mike, I
> know enough about you to know you didn't mean it quite that way, that
> you are frustrated as well at folks' knee-jerk reactions.
> 
> That's fine.
> 
> But I also saw this looking a little insulting, and for that, could
> have been written better.  As could the initial response from Andrew.
> 
> Those are done, now.
> 
> I marked this OT in the subject line because this subthread is such.
> My hope is we end it here, and move on, and maybe Andrew (and others
> who are silently watching) will hang around to gain some benefit from
> other threads from the list, or maybe not. But I would like us to not
> go down our usual road of a scream fest and lose more folks just
> because of choice of language.  I have my own list of words that are
> objectionable that have (unfortunately) already been posted in this
> thread, and I really need to sit down with the person who said them
> and explain why I (and a few others) find its usage insulting.  Off
> list.
> 
> 
> Brian
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