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

[Michael Meltzer]

makes the email address to long :-), the list has been around from 1996 the issue has come up before, the charter was voted on by
the list members.

MJM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <FredkLange at aol.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 11:09 AM
Subject: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Politics on the list.


> MJM,
>
> You must hold high office.  Claiming a "charter" (what organization came up
> with that?) authorizes topics outside the subject of the list is as sneaky and
> hypocritical as the politicians who are so often the brunt of the bar jokes.
>
> Lets be up front with it.  If this list is really about the "Rhodes22 and Bar
> Jokes," lets call it that.
>
> Fred
>
> In a message dated 11/24/03 6:39:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> mjm at michaelmeltzer.com writes:
>
> >
> > I give rummy top scorces for striring the pot, it been slow around here for
> > a few days
> >
> > never to dispoint:(but it is in the help link (at the bottom now :-)
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