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[at-l] Cell Phones -- Perception
I've worn out several!! Better than the alternative however!! :)
Gadog430 wrote:
>I am getting tired of the delete button.
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>Dawg
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Bullard" <jbullar1@twcny.rr.com>
>To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 9:23 AM
>Subject: Re: [at-l] Cell Phones -- Perception
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>At 11:11 PM 1/21/2005 -0500, Bob C wrote:
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>>>"...Why are we so worried about MacKaye, anyway, when he wasn't even the
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>>one who put the trail on the ground?" asks Leslie.
>>
>>Well, I don't think? "WE" are worried about Mackaye at all. RnR simply
>>laments the failure of this and other AT forums to appreciate Mackaye's
>>dream of a wild Appalachian Trail and from time to time criticizes those
>>who seem to prefer a trail that is as civilized as possible.
>>
>>For reasons I find puzzling a few persist in denying that Mackaye ever
>>wanted a wild trail and cite as evidence his initial proposal? in a minor
>>circulation magazine devoted to what was then a fledgling profession of
>>regional planners. In my? answer to OB,? I was simply pointing out the
>>obvious, that though Mackaye? didn't promote a wilderness trail in that
>>one article, he did so in hundreds of subsequent letters, publications and
>>talks continuing over many decades.
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>>Weary
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>Didn't we cover all this in the last round of AT-L bashing? Look, it isn't
>black vs white, wild trail vs totally civilized trail. Just because I am
>willing to accept that cell phones are a fact of modern life and some
>people may even attempt and sometimes succeed in making calls from the
>woods does not mean I want to pave the trail and build 4 stars hotels in
>place of the shelters.
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>You want to debate (fill in the trail issue du jour)? Try thinking in
>practical terms. You know things we can conceivably do something about and
>PROPOSE REALISTIC SOLUTIONS. [Hint: Stopping the wave of cell phone usage
>*isn't* within the power of AT-L members] Not once, I repeat, not once in
>all these 'AT-ers are out to destroy the trail' threads have I seen a
>realistic argument against whatever (have you noticed that they always
>*against*) or a practical solution proposed. It is all just frustrated
>lashing out at those listers who have the temerity to see things
>differently from those who consider themselves to be the enlightened ones.
>It's past old.
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>Still sighing Saunterer
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