On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Tracy Johnson wrote:
> This is way cool.  An internecine political fight.  I propose that we divide
> ourselves into factions:
> The User Faction.  The Consultant Faction.  The HP Faction.
> The Lurker Faction which has subfactions:
> -  The Recruiter Lurkers
> -  The DEC/VMS Lurkers
> -  The AS/400 Lurkers
> -  The HP-UX Lurkers

Hey! I resent that! I am unjustly being pigeonholed into a political category!
Personally, I consider myself part of "The List-Addict Lurkers."

> Then the candidates can run under the Open Platforms of one of the
> factions, or the hidden agendas of one of the Lurker subfactions.

The hidden agenda of my faction is: Keep it coming!

> Realpolitik at it's finest.

<GET REAL>
Nice to poke a little fun at these kinds of problems. Now, for my real opinion:
Please, guys and gals, don't take offense at *everyone's* comments. In most of
these situations, the offense tends to be in the eye of the beholder.

For some strange reason, *all* of the lists I'm subscribed to (quite a few) are
now having some sort of political infighting, bickering or plain nastiness.
(Maybe it's the start of the school year: hard on parents, students, teachers,
clerical staff, their relatives and aquaintances :-).

In most of these cases, they all started with the kind of misundersandings that
usually happen at the playground: "Hey! Why'dya look at me like that?"  "How?"
"Like *that*?" "Didn't, sorry you thought that." "Did too." "Did not."  "Did
too, you $%&!" "Did not, you $%&!" "Oh, yeah?!..."

Ad nauseam...

Please! Read things twice before taking offense, put yourself in the other's
shoes, and practice restraint when answering.

</GET REAL>

> Tracy Johnson
> Minister of Propaganda, Justin Thyme Productions

Minister of Bruised User's Computers, Ego and Souls
a.k.a. Tech. Support
Banorte Securities...                                   Marco Zamora