paleonet Re: suitable discussion

[<John.Laurie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dear PaleoNetters,

Sandy Leo has hit the nail right on the head. A subject is ‘on topic’ if messages keep being posted. If it is ‘off topic’ nobody replies. After all, PaleoNet is not an organisation like GA or BGS, it is us! Therefore what interests some of us is ‘on topic’, no matter how obscure or annoying to others.  If any or all of us were allowed to proscribe particular topics, then PaleoNet would be the lesser for it. If you are not interested in a particular topic, don’t whinge about it, just use the bloody delete key! Have those who whinge about particular topics ever stopped to consider that what they are whingeing about may be very pertinent to someone’s livelihood? Have they ever thought that their most treasured interest may be as boring as chiropteran excrement to others! It all gets down to tolerance; a commodity much too rare in today’s world.

 

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Dr John R. Laurie

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