>From: GBurch1@aol.com
>
>Unfortunately, as the closest thing to a list moderator this anarchic
>community has, I do not have the luxury of killfiling anybody -- and I feel
>an obligation to at least skim every post. Imagine my annoyance in a busy
>week when I see another unproductive outbreak of discussion of guns that
>admittedly does appear to contain some calm and rational discourse, but
>also
>contains WAY too many posts that amount to little more than rude,
>hyperbolic
>name-calling.
>
>PLEASE exercise some discretion and sense. PLEASE use a topic header that
>identifies your post as a "gun debate" post and PLEASE work to minimize the
>volume of your posts. Finally, just because someone on the other side of
>an
>issue from you acts like a jackass and uses the childish rhetoric of
>name-calling, don't think it does your own position any credit to fall to
>the
>same level.
As most of you know, I am a relatively new comer to this list. As such, I
was not aware that the gun debate was a horse that has apparently been
beaten to death, revived and beaten to death again. So I will not be
subjecting the list to any more of my opinions on the topic.
I do however want to make sure that I am not lumped in with those who
devolved to the level of name calling, even though I was the main instigator
of the debate. What I was looking for was rational, if passionate, debate
about what I feel to be an important, and list-relevant, issue. As I stated
at the outset of the thread, I don't do flamewars and the minute someone
resorted to that my replies to them stopped. So, for what its worth, those
of you who felt the need to killfile me can safely undo (for now).
-Zero
"I like dreams of the future better than the history of the past"
--Thomas Jefferson
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