[Rhodes22-list] How much time do you spend on the computer?

[Andrew Collins]

Dear Mr. Wager,

While the posting on political topics is currently excessive, we can still
use it as a sailing forum. When it gets to be too much I just wander off and
do other things like work, hang out with my family, try to raise my kids the
right way, sail, stinkpot around or whatever. When I come back, it is
entirely voluntary.

This forum may not be perfect, but it is our forum. So three guys can
somehow post a lot. So what? Any and all of us can buzz off whenever we
want.

Now, on another note we have brave citizens of all stripes posting,
reasoning, venting, ranting, proclaiming themselves to be God (Brad,
really!), it is like a bar at 5 minututes to midnight sometimes. A sailor's
bar, of course. Some of the stuff that gets posted, you just cannot make up,
it is so far out.

Personally, if the posts piss me off, I delete or ignore or take a break.
They are almost always informative, so I think a lively, even chaotic forum
covering any topic at all with a lot of sailing know-how available from list
members is preferable to some of the other ones that are just dead boring.

So this was a longish way of telling you to go haul your boat or something.

respectfully

Andrew
sv Carmen
mv freckle
Fallow Traveller
enlightened capitalist
member of da list

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Metaphor <mwager at bluecrab.org> wrote:

>
> I've got a simple question, but mostly applied to Herb and Brad, and
> somewhat
> to Tootle:
>
> Do you guys have jobs or real lives, or do you spend all day on the
> internet
> and then posting to this forum?  There are a couple of other volume
> posters,
> but none so prolific as you are. I get the sense that the sailors are
> pretty
> much giving up getting airtime in competition with the political nature of
> this forum.
>
> I try to follow the various threads, but have lost interest in this forum
> because it has so little to do with sailing, Rhodes 22's or nautical life
> in
> general.  Reading the same paranoid information from the three of you over
> and over again is tiresome, so much so that I've begun to applaud your
> challengers -- Ben C, petelargo, etc.,  simply because they are challenging
> you, and I have (but not always) voted Republican.
>
> Your time would be better spent arguing on a political forum rather that a
> sailing one, and leaving this forum to talk about the boring details of the
> Rhodes 22 -- you know, technical issues, innovative re-designs or fixes,
> sailing techniques, great sailing adventures, that kind of stuff of
> interest
> to Rhodes 22 owners and sailors... certainly there would be fewer posts,
> but
> the Rhodes 22 boat issues would not be so buried under the volume of
> political posts found here.  A search of the internet would probably find a
> few sites that you might find more of a political nature.  Thanks...
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