Enough! My comment was strickly about getting the board's discussion back on the main topic - astronomy. Nothing else. I said nothing about digressing lines of chit chat. Chuck is the one who attacked my respect for veterens and love of country. I responded with pertinent examples of endless posts on subjects I did not complain about but found boring. I'm interested in astronomy and appreciate the posts on that subject. That's why I joined, as did many others. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Bauman" <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> To: "Utah Astronomy" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:47:09 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Discussions Rich Allen: You mean we can't make a comment like "That's not how special interest mailing lists work"? -- No astronomical features in that sentence. If you don't want to read some of our comments, don't. But unless you're the list moderator and have been enforcing that kind of censorship all along, you shouldn't tell people they cannot veer off topic once in a while. -- Joe Bauman ________________________________ From: Rich Allen <rico@ricosweb.net> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Monday, November 14, 2011 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Discussions On 11/14/2011 11:23 AM, Joe Bauman wrote:
I think of UA as a group of friends who are interested in astronomy, sitting around a table and talking. Nobody should try to restrict their conversation to one topic.
That's not how special interest mailing lists work. Each list is about a specific topic, it is not a general forum to discuss anything you want. If you guys want to rename this list to "Utah Chat" then I'll go find somewhere else to discuss astronomy. Rich Allen _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php