[at-l] My Vote

[cballs@mindspring.com (Curtis Balls)]

I vote an emphatic NO.  This seems like a ploy to "quarantine" an unpopular
voice here on AT-L.  It seems undemocratic.  I don't want to hear just the
people I agree with.  I'm not likely to learn much that way.

Trail advocacy belongs on AT-L.  There's no good reason to have it anywhere
else.  Trail advocacy is what made the AT possible in the first place.
It's what got it built, it's what maintains it and it is what keeps it
growing.  Why would you want to segregate voices advocating for its care
and expansion from a hiking list?  It's a hiking trail.  As Yates wrote,
"How can you separate the dancer from the dance?"

If I can listen to Jim Owen's bombastic twaddle, my little rattlesnake, I
can stand to hear what RoksnRoots has to say.  Both are informative in
entirely different ways.

Dancing With Balls

----- Original Message -----
From: <saunterer@jimbullard.org>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] My Vote


> At 10:10 PM 4/2/02 +0000, Jim and/or Ginny Owen wrote:
> >So --- if Ryan is still willing (and that IS a very large question), is
> >there anyone else on the list who thinks that at-l should revert to
being
> >a "hiking" list and that the "Trail advocacy" should be removed to its
own
> >list, to be supported by those who are interested and so inclined?
> >
> >Y'all know what my vote is.  For the rest of you - vote early and
> >often.  If you don't vote now, then you will have chosen your own
> >fate.  So be it.
>
> My vote is that it's entirely up to Ryan.  His time, his dollar.
Whatever
> he decides, I *won't* be there.  I thought about adding "don't interpret
> that as an indication of my attitude toward the list's intended subject,
> one way or the other" however, I'm sure some will anyway.  Just don't
rant
> to me about it please.
>
> sAunTerer
>
>
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