[at-l] Re: Re Sharp TM 20s can you touch type on them

[RoksnRoots@aol.com (RoksnRoots@aol.com)]

In a message dated 4/30/01 1:26:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, daveh@usit.net 
writes:

<< So I will respond that you have no standing in trying to assume some sort 
of
 moral high ground with your "Oh cripes. Here we go again." >>

    You have to be careful with prematurely labeling something as offensive, 
or a "troll" in relation to the AT. To filter all such input is to risk 
leaving out something which falls well within the Trail's definitions. I 
assume a hesitancy exists partly because of a certain other site's unswerving 
focus on on-Trail behavior and conduct and feeling of wanting to stay out of 
that scrape.

     Without intending any attacks or undue hostile inferences, I humbly ask 
that, when considering Trail use related topics, one go and read Benton 
MacKaye's prospectus on AT "Regional Planning". You will see that the Trail's 
creator included many such ideas as core to his concept of Trail. In that 
regard it is not so out of line or unreasonable to question what is 
appropriate in preserving a primitive Trail corridor. If the question has 
been hashed to death of late on AT sites, I won't argue, but it never the 
less is still germane. I hope we don't consider ourselves beyond that now a 
days.

     I personally would tolerate a small keyboard type object if it was being 
used on the Trail in a hidden way inside a tent or such. Of itself, it is 
probably out of place, but, when used discretely, it is a one-way technology 
that does not link the outside world to the Trail, but aids in keeping a 
journal.

    BTW: After reading MacKaye's prospectus, you will see that the AT is an 
unavoidable conservation "moral high ground" by definition...