From: GRYMBLE GRUMBLE <williama@kenyon.edu>
Subject: EVERTHING RIGHT IS WRONG AGAIN...
Reply-To: williama@kenyon.edu
Organization: The Internet
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:59:33 GMT

Howdy peoples,

              It seems like the fires are still burning all over the
net. I want to try and throw some water on them because I feel as if
I was the start of all this insanity. I just have some psuedo-aphorisms
for everyone to ponder over. One of the main reasons I became a
philosophy major was to learn more about humanity and ethics. Without
sounding too much like a blowhard, I want to give us all some things
to think about before we go and post that message...

1. Try to let everyone have there say because everyone should
   have their say no matter how good or bad. However, to attack
   a person is not to attack what they are saying.

2. Try to identify with everyone. This may be difficult but try to see
   things from everyone's perspective. Oldtimers may not understood
   the newcomers and vice versa but they should at least try. Everyone
   has different reasons for being on the network and while they are not
   all respectable, they at least should be respected.

3. All this hate that I'm feeling now over the net has me really bummed
   out. One reason is that my personal life can at times be trying and the
   net was always a place for me to get along with people. I don't want this
   to come off wrong but as one of the (probably) few black netters I am
   often times at shows reluctant to run up to others and start rapping
   because most times I just get this strange "why are you here look".
   Now of course, this is not to imply anything about anyone. All I am
   saying is we need to chill out and realize we are all one here for a
   certain purpose. We should not be divided into elite, newcomer, druggy,
   whatever. WE ARE ALL GLIDES and that is the imporatnat thing. Why should
   it be about how many tapes you have or shows you've seen or times you
   have met the guys? We are equal for the mere fact that we ALL LOVE THE
   MUSIC!

4. Shows are directly affected by the people that attend them. Now someone
   wrote to me and told me that they were in fact thinking of selling tix
   at the show (Roseland) until they saw both my post and the reaction to it.
   Someone also wrote to me that I should expose the netters who were
   scalping at I show I went to. I am not going to *expose* anyone because
   people are free to do what they want. I do feel good though that someone
   understood what I was trying to say (albeit in a very poor way) and have
   changed. 

Now this whole thing has turned out to be much longer than I expected and
already I have broken my pact of only writing posts with phish content.
I do feel that it is important for all this to stop though. I've been
labeled as everything from a "scumscalper" to a "weenie and a tool"
(thanks Janice!) The mob has to disperse at some time, so let's try to
make it soon, o.k.? :^)

                                             Hugs across the net,
                                                                 dre. :^)

"none buy ourselves can free our minds..." - Bob Marley "Redemption song"