Re: HARKEN

Man Jon I think you have done it again!  What a great idea!

Have you ever considered joining the diplomatic corp?

Hey list admin!  We should implement something like this.

This should make our main list (somewhat) free of flames, ect...

Donald Hosford

Ground Zero Games wrote:

> >DAWGFACE47@webtv.net wrote:
> >>
> >> NOW  that	CLINTOON is gone, i am back to watching my favorite war
hero
> >> politician-TOM HARKEN.
> >>
> >> i am curious to hear/read how many more  NVA he slaughtered after
> >> breaking out of a POW camp, stealing a sailboat and  sailing to
safety.
> >>
> >> or maybe he is slaughtering al-quida  undercover in his old  age
now.
> >>
> >> THROW THE BUMS OUT!
> >
> >And this has to do with GZG games.......how?
>
> Quite.
> I normally try not to comment on the off-topic discussions, especially
when
> they evolve from an at-first legitimate thread, but this one has just
> sprung into being with no connection at all to any previous on-topic
item -
> no offence, Dawgie, but this just simply isn't relevant - I'm sure
there
> are plenty of US poltical discussion forums that this would fit right
into.
>
> Following from this and all the other problems of non-topicality and
> brushfire flame wars recently, with the attendant departure of several
list
> members that we know of (and probably quite a few lurkers too), it did
> cross my mind that there might be an example to draw from another list
I'm
> on.
>
> On John Kovalic's Dork Tower mailing list (for the Dork Tower comics,
if
> you're not familiar with them - Hi John, if you're listening....),
John K
> has simply set up an separate sub-list, called "Mud Bay Today" (Mud
Bay is
> the fictional town in which DT is set) specifically for anything that
is
> drastically off-topic or inflammatory to the main DT list. As soon as
> anyone on the DT list mentions anything to do with (eg) gun control,
> religious intolerance, politics etc etc, they are immediately told
(usually
> by several list members, not by an admin overlord)  to take it onto
the
> "MBT" list, where anyone interested in following the thread can do so
and
> the rest of us can get on wiht the topical stuff. AFAIK, on "MBT"
anything
> goes, and you can flame away until the brushfire war turns into full
> nuclear exchange if you wish...... BUT only those who are really
interested
> will be getting the mails - if you want to follow a particular thread,
just
> sub on to that list for a while and come off it again when the thread
is
> over or everyone is dead - in some ways it could have a gruesome sort
of
> attraction to lurk on, a bit like watching gladiatorial combat or
> rubbernecking a car crash..... <GRIN>
>
> So, does anyone else think that something like this MIGHT just work
here?
> Somewhere to move the heated exchanges to by mutual consent?
>
> Jon (GZG)
>
> >
> >Mk