Re: Lord Rabah's email on Acorn and SCA web pages

[John Strauss <jstrauss@gmu.edu>]

Poster: John Strauss <jstrauss@gmu.edu>

> Poster: homan@nando.net (Fred Homan)
> 
> > Poster: Tom Bilodeau <tirloch@mindspring.com>
> > 
> > So, all you whiners, get a life!
> 

> Apparently, some have preconceived notions that
> disagreement with an authority in public somehow constitutes whining rather
> than an attempt to discuss a matter of public interest/business. 

> I personally believe a public forum of the Kingdom of Atlantia is a great place
> to discuss matters without somehow worrying one does not have authority to
> express oneself on matters of the day.  Perhaps I am mistaken?
> 
> Aedric the Green				IKA Fred Op

No, you got it right. The rest of us "whiners" failed to reply to this 
for three reasons:

1) We had already made all our points and felt it was time for "closing 
noise", a list phenomenon in which a completed topic is passed on to 
others to satisfy Sturgeon's Law.
2) We were dumbfounded by this and the earlier comment about "sphincters".
3) If one is labeled "argumentative", one can either agree or argue, 
conceding the point in either case. To a lesser extent, this is also true 
if one is labeled a "whiner".

Eadric, it's time for us to leave the field with dignity. If we hurry, we 
can give someone else The Last Posting, an ersatz victory condition.

|      John Strauss             |      aka Henry Best          |
|      jstrauss@gmu.edu         |      henry@poboxes.com       |
|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| "People don't quit playing because they grow old. They grow  |
|  old because they quit playing."     -Oliver Wendell Holmes  |

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