Well this would all be lovely in the Best of All Possible Worlds.
Yep, the topic strayed. And got a bit bitchy in there, someplace. And presumably it got into areas Howard to be found irrelevant, but which others presumably didn't find entirely irrelevant. Chacun à son goût.
The NBN is relevant to the tech writing community (amongst others) and arguments for and against it were bound to move into the areas of affordability / desirability / philosophy or what you will. I don't think there's a group topic definition that would guarantee that doesn't happen some time. And to suggest that this stuff has to be somehow confined to a specialised "political" list is not really of much value, and totally ignores the fact that politics is almost always about particular issues and how they affect particular groups of people, even tech writers. "Stick 'em all in the political ghetto" isn't an answer, Stuart. Ideas don't come in neat boxes.
Politics isn't something to be left to the political philosophers... not after what they've done with the subject over the past few centuries. And of course we've all heard many of these arguments before, and probably will again. Is anyone being hurt by a simple subject break-out into its political implications ?
And if it all goes a bit beyond that, sometimes, is it an imminent national internet disaster?
If all you object to is the fact that there's conflict of opinion, or that you're not interested in a particular line of argument or discussion, it's like TV or other bits of the internet -- just push a delete button and/or change your email client settings to simply download only headers until you want to read the body of a post with a more interesting subject matter. That's not hard, really.
-Peter M
>> I'm all for people's rights to express their opinions but surely
>> you don't mean to imply that this list is open to anyone to
>> debate anything?
>>
>> This thread started off as a discussion of a topic of some
>> relevance to the tech writing community: the NBN. But it has
>> devolved into a 'debate' that no longer has much relevance...
>>
>
> Well said, Howard, I couldn't agree more.
>
> Start a new list called ayn-rand-karl-marx-smackdown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Invite everyone to join.
> Sit back and wait to be flooded by subscription requests. Too easy.
>
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