[pure-silver] My thoughts on the End of the Era
- From: Ron Schwarz <rs@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 15:42:30 -0400
My thoughts, FWIW, YMMV, LS/MFT, etc.
The list has survived a somewhat abortive migration -- but, it may not
survive.
Agitators conspire off-list to sabotage the migration, churning for power,
attempting to inject politics, and worse.
Good f'n grief.
It's a bloody MAILING LIST, not the Liberation of Freedonia!
It is very sad to realize that human nature is so ubiquitous as to even
afflict simple endeavors like the migration of a mailing list.
Unless certain agitators back off and leave the Pure-Silver mailing list
alone -- and now, it appears, the Silver-Bits (and probably Chroma) mailing
lists too -- the result will be predictable. They will succeed in
destroying that which they cannot possess.
That's how it works.
I've always likened the process to watchmaking. It takes an expert Swiss
craftman a year (or so I've been told) to build a fine wrist watch.
It takes an angry fool with a ballpeen hammer a split second to destroy it.
Destruction is always easier than creation. And, we seem to have
destroyers in our midst.
"If it works, don't fix it" seems to have been tossed out of the window.
Not *all* windows, though -- just a few.
But, those few, remember, are armed with the almighty ballpeen hammer, and
they do not seem content to let it rest.
Alas, Pure-Silver, I knew it well...
I do not expect these lists to survive, simply because NO list can survive
when it is subject to unrelenting assault.
Now that "the conspirators" have taken their efforts offline, and gone to
the effort to register a domain (using Tim's list's name, without his
permission!), and staked as it were their claim to the *future* of this
list, the list is essentially doomed, in my opinion.
Realistically, very few will voluntarily "go over to their side".
People are happy where they are, and are content to remain there.
So, the assaults can be expected to continue, and likely escalate.
The result will be a steady drain of lost members. Not that these members
will wander over to the malcontents' side, of course. After all, at this
stage it appears that it's more about destroying, than building.
How sad.
How very, very, unspeakably sad.
I will try to hold my tongue after this.
--
Website: http://www.michi-kogaku.com/
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