From: robinson@knuth.mtsu.edu (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: your special edition rec.guns posting
Date: 13 Nov 92 12:29:04 GMT
Article-I.D.: mimsy.62021


Dear Jim,

As one of those poor unfortunates who don't have direct access to the
netnews, and conseqently have been a burden on your mailer for the
rec.guns digest, let me be one small voice to support your position in
re the controversy between you as moderator and Mr. Klausner.  I've been
privileged to receive rec.guns.digest from you for over a year now, and 
I fully appreciate the reasons for your 'moderation' (as it were :-)  As
a librarian, I participate in several library-oriented mailing lists that
are moderated.... and I have had postings rejected for 'cause'... (BTW,
I've sent articles to professional print journals and have had *THEM* 
rejected for 'cause' too... so I guess I'm not as thin-skinned as Mr. 
Klausner :-)

Maybe I just have a greater appreciation for professional standards for
publication... and ADHERENCE TO TOPIC as a result of my participation in
the Great Big Academic Paper Chase :-)    This *IS*, after all, a group 
devoted to professional discussion, right?  :-) 

rec.guns.digest is one of the events that I consistently look forward to
every day.  The technical discussions that go on here are like a coffee
break in the drudgery of a normal day of putting out computer-related
fires here in my shop :-)

BTW: our sysadmin recently started subscribing to the talk. heirarchy so
we just recently started receiving talk.politics.guns.  I'm forced to
agree with you that the signal-to-noise ratio on that group is all out
of proportion to the value of the traffic :-/  Fortunately, I've been a
long-time subscriber to the firearms and firearms-politics bitnet
newsgroups, so I've been privy to some pretty distinguished commentary
on this, my favorite topic!  My only regret is that I haven't been able
to coax our sysadmin into adding rec.guns.  There was some grumbling 
that the volume was overwhelming... the downside is that they said the 
same thing about rec.humor :-(  and they let the talk. heirarchy 
through !?!? :-?  as I've repeatedly said: " One learns to accept a 
certain amount of eccentricity on a college campus :-) "   

I apologize for my long-winded mail, but I just wanted you to know that
*I* for one, am perfectly happy with your moderation.  You have my
permission to excerpt this to the group.... but I'd welcome your editorial
'enhancements'... there's no reason to inflict this entire philippic on
the group.  Mostly, this is a personal note of thanks from me to you for
allowing me to participate vicariously in the discussion.

yours respectfully, 

David 
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