In article , "Carl R. Stevenson"
writes:
I hereby propose that we rename RRAP to "rec.Steve, Len, and a few others
rag on each other endlessly.alt"
and create a new newsgroup for those of us who really would like to discuss
amateur radio regulatory and policy
issues ...
Carl, I've made a suggestion repeatedly for at least six years in
here that it should be shut off from public access with only
"authorized access" and a moderator to attempt keeping the
peace. That way everyone can be "among their own kind," happy
and content, no evil independent thoughts intruding nirvana.
I'm getting REALLY tired of all of this endless, childish bickering that is
OT and doesn't belong here ...
most days, it's hard to find the stuff that this newsgroup is supposed to
be for because of the volume
of petty, personal bickering that you guys load the newsgroup up with ...
I agree. But, having practiced computer-modem communications for
17+ years, slightly longer than that via time-share systems on the
old Arpanet, then Usenet, then BBSs, and finally the Internet after
1991, I'd say that human nature hasn't changed much. :-)
"Mankind invented language to satisfy his need to complain..." - anon.
For truly serious action on this, you should consult with Paul Schleck
on a "restructuring" of this newsgroup to make it closed-access.
Shut everyone out but your own kind. "Killfile" everyone that gives
you a bad screen day. Peace. Tranquility. Happy QSOs.
Or, alternatively, you guys can go rag on each other in
rec.radio.amateur.misc like it used to be (and why
this group was created in the first place if memory serves me correctly - to
provide a place for the serious
regulatory/policy discussion after rec.radio.amateur.misc turned into the
sort of argue_about_off_topic_things
fest that you guys have going on here ...
Tsk, tsk, tsk. Have you forgotten the immortal words of Jim Kehler
and his beloved "No SSB International" movement? Forgotten that
he loved to say (about Techs) "Gigahertz for gigasquirts?" :-)
KH2D = Jim Kehler, formerly high chieftan of hamminess on Guam.
Tell you what, Carl, let's see you hang in there with mild, civil
manners as a model of comportment after another has threatened
to abrogate your First Amendment rights in public, repeatedly
called you "putz" (Yiddish for asshole), "scum" in various forms,
"ignorant of everything in amateur radio," a "pathological liar,"
"dishonorable" towards the USA military after conjuring up obvious
untruthful conditions...plus...various forms of personal insults
including alleged homosexual acts, insulting my wife, my parents,
my work experience, my education, educational institutions who
provide college-credit courses away from normal hours.
Of course you've weathered those contentious conditions of an
equal nature with the highest possible conduct befitting an
executive directorship. All the PCTA have done equally calm,
reasoned, civil replies in here, haven't they? :-)
OK, there ... I've said my peace and now you can tell me to [expletive
deleted for Jim's benefit] off ...
Wouldn't think of it. Heavens, no civilized person uses [expletive
deleted] [expletive deleted] words in newsgroups...that's for the
lower-class, inferior, non-amateur bourgoise, the riff-raff, the
underbelly of society peasantry. Self-righteousness and
sanctimonious behavior are the true rulers on an enlighted
superior society.
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Now back to the present-day amateur policy newsgroup where the
main topics are immunization, diseases, past military experience,
national policy, and - especially - much angst over long-past
message exchanges which must be argued over and over and over
and over and over again until the original non-winner considers they
have "won."
Please excuse my absence. I am preparing some Replies to
Comments to my government on federal regulations. No doubt I
will once again by rewarded by an Amateur Extra licensee
demanding I be censored and censured for exercising my First
Amendment Rights to my government.
Censorship is wonderful, don't you wish everyone had it?
LHA / WMD
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