Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/16

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Off topic posts
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2000 13:37:11 -0500
References: <Your message of "Sat, 16 Dec 2000 09:08:01 PST." <007301c06782$c0460e80$02000003@dnai.com>
 
Forget email...there's no better way to kill a dinner party or any other
social gathering than to start a discussion on politics or religion!  And
yeah, consider what happenes to that undercarriage when a) all those
canaries decide to take off into the air, and b), when they eventually
land.  ;-)

dan c.

At 09:39 AM 16-12-00 -0800, Brian Reid wrote:
[snip]
>But in the 25 years that I've been
>moderating Internet email communities (yes, I started in 1975), I've
>found that politics, religion, and abortion discussions, during times of
>national angst about those topics, will drive away many of the most
>valuable contributors to such communities. 
[snip]
>
>OT: speaking as a physics major with an engineering PhD, I can assure
>you that keeping 500 pounds of canaries in the air does not change
>the load on the undercarriage of a truck. 'tis a bird blivet no matter
>how you arrange it.
>
>