Michael Lawson wrote:
"John Barnard" wrote in message
news:FraCg.363249$IK3.64851@pd7tw1no...
Telamon wrote:
In article ,
Joe from Kokomo wrote:

Slow Code wrote:

Just a little more clean up. Everything will be OK.
Just "a little more clean up"?? Well into the -FOURTH- year??

and "Everything will be OK."??

How naive of you.
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Do you have any idea how stupid you look posting off topic
political
stuff for the most part to this news group? I didn't think so.

Plonk

Do you think of how stupid you look trying to divorce politics from
shortwave? Do you truly believe that much of this hasn't been hashed
over every form of communications medium available including
shortwave?
Spare us your hypocrisy!

No one's keeping people from going over
to soc or talk newsgroups and discussing
politics there; that's what those newsgroups
are for.

All of what you say is true but Telamon's robe isn't pearly white on the
posting of off-topic items and his "plonk" seems to be remarkably
selective at times. So selective one might say that it is
politically-based ;-).


Telamon is right that if you feel you have
the right to spout off about it, people also
have the right to not listen. If a user is
constantly changing e-mail addresses
to make sure that they are heard, then
people will simply go away and you're
left talking to a wall.

No argument about not having to listen. Just put the person in a
killfile and be done with it. It's his public display of the fact that
is rather interesting and attempts to convey the illusion that he is the
rec.radio.shortwave netkkkop. He isn't and never will be. If he wants
control that badly then let him start his own newsgroup and moderate it.


Sports are found just as easily on shortwave,
but you hardly ever hear it mentioned here
at even close to the frequency that you
do with politics. Same thing happens with
music.

That's the crux of the matter - he's deciding, and, by posting in
public, what he feels is relevant to this newsgroup. No one has that
control over this newsgroup. End of story. I feel that everything from
solar physics to electronics to politics to music to sports to shack
set-ups and everything in between are relevant to this newsgroup.


Maybe I should start crossposting NFL and
rugby and cricket news to compensate for
the political news.


I have no problem with that particularly when reception conditions are
miserable ;-)
--Mike L.




Thank you for the intelligent discussion!

JB