I've been a quiet member of this list for almost 10 years now and I like the OT stuff, except for the trump/politics. Would anyone be up for a hard and fast rule of no trump / politics talk? That seems to be where the majority of the garbage was from these last few weeks.
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Jaime Solorza <losguyswirel...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am giving up Trump posts for Lent....I am thinking of showing up at > Animal Farm.... Promise no weapons on my person ...Just have to move stuff > around.. > > On Mar 1, 2017 12:44 PM, "Chuck McCown" <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: > > And I do have to say thank you to Paul for keeping this thing alive. > Without him it would have died. > > *From:* Chuck McCown > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 01, 2017 12:37 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] List topics and verboseness of non-WISP > non-businessrelated discussions > > I agree, it gets out of hand. > Sometimes I say something but most of the time I let the self policing > nature of the list do what nature does. > > For many of us, this list is as close to social media we want to go. > Many of us have been on here since it was part-15. 15 years or so. > > Personally I don’t have any desire for the list to grow or shrink or > change other than to remain a place where we can hang out. This list is > most certainly not a “safe place” and you will not see trigger warnings > unless you see the occasional literal “trigger warning”. It is kinda like > a friendly bar that I can hang out in without my Mormon neighbors seeing me > parked out front. > > Once upon a time Doug Clark was a semi offical list daddy. That lasted > until Doug got pissed about something. > > As always ALL opinions will be more-or-less welcomed. > > > > *From:* Paul McCall > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 01, 2017 12:25 PM > *To:* af@afmug.com > *Subject:* [AFMUG] List topics and verboseness of non-WISP non-business > related discussions > > > I shared this with Chuck McCown, and he suggested I share this with the > list directly, so here goes. > > > > *Just FYI, in my normal business conversations with WISPs, I get one or > two people a week tell me they no longer look at the list because of all > the BS, politics, etc. I also don’t use AFMUG nearly as much as I used to > because of that. * > > > > *While it costs me $$ for every email sent (I have never complained), AWS > is very solid and reliable, so it was a great choice. That’s not the point > of my comment.* > > > > *People need to take that junk to some other venue, so we can focus on > important technology and business needs, IMO. * > > > > *It probably won’t change but it’s my 2 cents.* > > > > Paul > > > > > > Paul McCall, President > > PDMNet, Inc. / Florida Broadband, Inc. > > 658 Old Dixie Highway > > Vero Beach, FL 32962 > > 772-564-6800 <(772)%20564-6800> > > pa...@pdmnet.net > > www.pdmnet.com > > www.floridabroadband.com > > > > > > >
