[Rhodes22-list] Anyone else tired of this political debate?

[Bill Effros]

Graham,

You know, I was actually thinking the same thing.  We go through this 
every 6 months or so.  We used to have 2 prohibited areas, religion and 
politics.  But people started sneaking their opinions through by 
labellings them "Jokes".  So we opened it up to no holds barred.

Most of the answers to most of the questions about the R-22 have been 
archived, and are available to newcomers without asking questions on the 
open list.  The people with the answers to the rest of the questions 
have no reason to come back to this list day after day if all they are 
doing is answering questions from newcomers that have been answered many 
times before.

So we fill our idle hours with banter.  Some newcomers just pass 
through.  Others hang with us.  Some people sell their boats but stick 
with the list.  It's hard to explain.  I guess it's an acquired taste.

But if you want to know something about the boat, and Stan doesn't have 
the time to answer, this is the place to be.

Bill Effros

Graham Stewart wrote:

>I recently joined this listserve because I have an older Rhodes 22 and
>wanted to exchange information with those who have experience with the boat.
>For the first few days that is what happened and I got some very useful
>information.
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>For the last week however, it seems like a never ending torrent of political
>babble that so far as I can tell has nothing to to with Rhodes 22 sailboats.
>There are endless chat rooms and blogs out there where one can - and should
>- engaged in political debate. So can I suggest that those who want to
>persist in the debate choose another venue and leave this listserve for talk
>about Rhodes 22? That only seems fair and reasonable to me.
> 
>Otherwise, I am out of here. Am I the only one who feels this way?
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