[ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics on the list. my .01

[Michael Meltzer]

I heard you, Even Steve gets it :-).
What bother me more here is the self serving condensing attitude, they know best, no room for self doubt about  the wisdom of the
position and in this case "what is best for me", yikes, and like most things life "No good deeds should go unpunished".

Everyone, I would like to thankyou for the support, or I should say, thankyou for supporting your self's and keeping the list the
way it has been for the last 8 years, we have made a nice place for your self's.

MJM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rik Sandberg" <sanderico at earthlink.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 11:33 AM
Subject: Re: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics on the list. my .01


> To all on the list,
>
> The thing I find most interesting about these on/off topic discussions is:
> Those that are constantly complaining about the topic, very rarely post a
> boating question. If we all sat around waiting for most of these folks to say
> something, there would be nothing here but emptiness. AND no point in coming
> here.
>
> So, all you "topic police", if you want someone to be here to answer your
> questions when you finally come up with one, you might consider not asking
> that all the veteran owner/sailors be bored to tears while they wait. If you
> are going to insist on the boredom, soon there will be no one here to help
> you.
>
> If you have a boating question, then post it. Everyone here is more than
> happy to talk about boats and will help however they can if someone will just
> post the question. But, it seems you very rarely hear from the "topic police"
> except when they decide it's time to bitch about the topics. Then it seems
> they have lots to say. I wonder, are topic discussions considered "boat
> related"???
>
> Rik
>
> On 12/01/2003 01:17 pm, you wrote:
> > Todd,
> >
> > While agreeing with much of what you had to say, you should be aware that
> > when the charter was adopted it was done extremely democratically.  There
> > were probably 100+ of us on the list at the time, and we worked quite hard
> > on the charter.  Michael did not impose it, and has accepted every
> > modification.
> >
> > Fred,
> >
> > While agreeing with much of what you had to say, and having taken a similar
> > position in the past, I think it has become obvious over time that the only
> > way to hold the attention of the experienced list members who provide most
> > of the answers is to allow them to chat off-topic.
> >
> > Bill Effros
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Todd Tavares
> > To: The Rhodes 22 mail list
> > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics on the list. my .01
> >
> >
> > Fred,
> >
> >     I am probably way out of my place here, but being on the receiving end
> > of MJM's wrath, all the while ignorant of the content and make up of this
> > list here;  This is basically Michael's list (and others).  We exist here
> > because of the time, patience, energy, and money Micheal (and a few
> > others?)spend to administrate this list-serv.
> >
> >    Michael has a life and a family, and probably much more imortant things
> > to do with his time.  He choses to run this list server for his and all of
> > our pleasure and enjoyment.  Michael has given me the "take you computer
> > and go down the road speech" before; and that's putting it mildly.  While
> > this list does have a charter, it is still the creation of MJM and not a
> > democracy.  If MJM has the stomach to put up with my nonsense, then he (and
> > all here) have the patience of saints.
> >
> >    So as far as the procedures for adopting, recalling and amending the
> > charter?  I don't thinks Robert's Rules apply here, but i may be wrong :-)
> >
> > Thanks All,
> >
> > Todd
> >    Not a sermon.....just a thought.
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