Xref: utzoo soc.culture.celtic:1583 soc.culture.misc:487 news.misc:2255 news.groups:6425 Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!skep2!wcs From: wcs@skep2.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart.[ho95c]) Newsgroups: soc.culture.celtic,soc.culture.misc,news.misc,news.groups Subject: Re: Let's have other more votes.. Summary: voting on talk.politics.ireland Message-ID: <330@skep2.ATT.COM> Date: 5 Dec 88 04:18:20 GMT References: <1067@etive.ed.ac.uk> <8074@megaron.arizona.edu> <324@skep2.ATT.COM> <8133@megaron.arizona.edu> Reply-To: wcs@skep2.UUCP (46323-Bill.Stewart.[ho95c],2G218,x0705,) Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Center 4632, Holmdel, NJ Lines: 31 In article <8133@megaron.arizona.edu> gln@arizona.edu (Gary L. Newell) writes: :Speaking of being courteous, why don't some of you folks who dislike the :political discussions show a little? As I pointed out, and you quoted later on, I'd stopped reading s.c.c., so I've *been* polite - I replied when the argument overflowed into news.misc. :Please Please Please!!! Tell me what makes it so damn hard??!!?? Perhaps the :articles on bagpipes and linguistics are few, because it represents the level :of overall interest as opposed to politics. They've been drowned out, Gary, or at least had for a while when I stopped reading it; a couple of political zealots can drown out anything else, and people who care about Irish politics tend to be zealots whichever side they're on - there's been a lot of wrong done by both sides, and reconciliation is a tough thing when both sides would rather fight. But there are other good discussions that go on; it's simply hard to find them. Looks like there's about 1/3 non-political content today. As another poster pointed out in reply to my article, Jamie's vote was asking for an end to the political discussion rather than a new newsgroup to move it to, which I hadn't realized. This is soc.CULTURE.celtic, after all - shall we create a talk.politics.ireland? There's clearly enough volume to justify it. -- # Thanks; # Bill Stewart, AT&T Bell Labs 2G218 Holmdel NJ 201-949-0705 ho95c.att.com!wcs # # One Bell System - it works!