At 10:28 AM +01002/2/03, Arnold Stark wrote, or at least typed: >Hello Doug, > >>I'm not inconsistent. My position has been and will continue to be that politics has >no place here on the PDML. >> >Would you say the same if we had PDML members in Bagdad?
I do not keep up with where members live. If a member lives in Bagdad and has something to say about Pentax, I welcome that member. If that member insists on making this a political forum, we have a problem, just as I do with members from everywhere else who want to make this a political forum. This is a Pentax list. There are many many places on the Internet where politics have their place. This is not such a place. >Or if one of those journalists who will be reporting from the upcoming war would be >using Pentax >equipment? I would welcome reports about how the equipment performs in the field, as it would be on-topic. If the journalist begins ranting about the polotics of the war, it would be off-topic. This is really not difficult to understand. >Can questions of life and death really be OT for the PDML family? This war will have >effects on all of >us - be it relatives being in combat, more or less terrorism, the >international law being rewritten by the >only left world power, or simply fellow >men, women and children being killed. The one thing being really >off topic is >insulting fellow PDML members - something that has happened in the course of >discussions >on Pentax equipment, too. We all must controll our emotions when posting >to the PDML. We must respect >each others opinions. If that would be possible I would >welcome a PDML discussion on the legitimacy of >the upcoming war as much or more than >a discussion about what Pentax short telephoto lenses are the >best. If we can't discuss Pentax with civility, what makes you think a discussion of war would be civil? Again, there are plenty of places on the Net for such discussions. I don't go to them and demand that I be allowed to discuss photography. Why should I be forced to read about politics here? > >Arnold -- Douglas Forrest Brewer Ashwood Lake Photography [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alphoto.com
