[AT] Ok, you asked /was/ What are you folks thinking?

[Landen Schooler]

Well, this is what I'm thinking.....

Who ever this person was it seems they need to suck it up, grown a spine,
trade the thin skin they have for a thicker gauge, show a little tolerance
for a bit of patriotic celebrating an event that affects us all for the next
4 years. A little flag waving is no reason to stomp off in a huff........
It seems this person needs to grow up and act like an adult, not like a sore loser
since his guy lost. From the post, it looks like this fellow is looking for 
a reason to be insulted, and to profess such anger to leave the list is silly.

So that's what I think, since you did ask............

Landen Schooler
Palmyra, Iowa 

Spencer Yost wrote:
> 
> >         I'm not sure how this is going to play out... I'm going to miss
> >the list. Maybe someday I will get back to it but I'm too angry now.
> >Actually as a middle of the road person I was pretty ambivalent about the
> >election itself. I just can't grasp how a bunch of otherwise friendly guys
> 
> >can be so infantile and completely lacking in self control. I sometimes
> >wonder if they walk down the street insulting strangers...
> >         This list was the first list I joined when I first got on the net
> 
> >back in the mid 1990's.  If I could I would apologize to you for how they
> >act but of course I can't. I do believe they owe you and the list an
> >apology. I do apologize for my own anger and I want to wish you and yours
> >
> 
> The sad part is he is right, and this is probably the 20th or 30th letter I
> have received over the last 2-3 years, mostly from important
> contributors(and countless other left with writing).  I could almost paper
> one wall of my shop with them.
> 
> You folks post messages like "What ever happened to Old John( , or Bob, or
> whoever)?"  I'll tell you what happened to old John or Bob, or whoever - he
> wrote me an email saying he couldn't be a part of a bunch of people who A:
> Have developed a mean bone, or B: A lack of tolerance, or C:  Don't
> understand the "No politics or religion rule" applies to them.  They are
> right just like the individual above is right  An occasional post that is
> horribly mean and vindicative occasionally shows up.  This is something hat
> would have never happened more than 2 or 3 years ago.  Occasionally this
> list appears to act like kids.  Give you one simple rule and you show no
> self-control, discipline or sense of obligation.
> 
> Ordinarily I don't mention it when someone leaves but this is a big fish we
> are losing and I am VERY angry right now - This is one of our more
> important contributors and a most kind and gracious individual.  Thanks for
> running off yet another important list member.  It really is a loss for
> each of us individually as much as it is a loss for the the body corporate.
> 
> Spencer Yost
> Owner, ATIS
> Plow the Net!
> http://www.atis.net
> 
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