[pure-silver] Re: My thoughts on the End of the Era
- From: anclancy@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 20:40:41 +0000
i have been watching (reading) a great many of these messages on p.s.
concerning this whole mess and i think your thoughts on this issue are very
well put.
I enjoyed that board and want to continue participating in a constructive
exchange of information on this one.
Don't have a clue about the off line "junk" and frankly will refuse to engage
it that type of behavior.
Just wanted to thank you for your thoughts and let you know that your message
certainly makes sense (to me)
Looking forward to getting back to constructive photo sharing.
regards,
ann
-------------- Original message --------------
> 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.
>
>
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