Give me a break!

[Adam J Bunton]

AMEN

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
[mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net] On Behalf Of Jeffrey A.
McCright
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 11:48 PM
To: kclug at kclug.org
Subject: Give me a break!

I have been saving messages from the KCLUG Mail list since August of
2001, and I cannot believe the topics brought to this list and the
amount of mail traffic generated from such topics. I cannot believe the
juvenile posts and responses placed in this mail list. The issue of top
posting or html messages, or the blasting of Mac and Windows users just
makes me sick! I joined the KCLUG to learn more about Linux and to seek
help when I needed it and to offer it when I was able. I attended
meetings to meet those who offered help and to try to offer my help to
new members or those just looking to find out more about Linux. However,
the past year and a half has been an eye opener for me. For years, I
have posted requests for help. the past year and a half, my requests for
help have been met with monologues that have nothing to do with my
needs. Eventually I get a response from one or two, usually off the list
mailed directly to my e-mail address with some helpful advise or
instructions. To those members I say thank you for your help! I have
watched others get flamed for using hardware or operating systems deemed
"unacceptable" by closed minded, opinionated people! I have seen members
of this list deliberately misconstrue other members' posts only to post
some oblique, self-serving political view that they support because of
some sort of twisted need to force their view on others. I top post! I
send text messages! I use Windows and Linux! I run Macintosh, Sun,  and
PC hardware. I provide support to client's who have chosen a hardware or
software solutions that meets their needs. Who am I to try to force my
views upon them??? Who are you to force your opinions on me????

New members to the list that come to the KCLUG watch our actions, our
responses, our openness and willingness to help. When we argue pointless
issues about top posting, spam, html messages, Mac owners, and Windows
users, (to name just the tip of the iceberg) we push these people away.
Who wants to join an organization that berates their membership because
they "top post".

I do not need to fill my inbox with crap! I would rather receive the
Spam I get from unknown posters trying to sell me a larger penis or some
stupid porn site membership than to receive the crap posted here on this
mail list from fellow members of a group I belong to. Others associate
me with those I find offensive. I do not want to be associated with you.
I haven't invited friends to our meetings in the past year and a half
because I fear what will be said to them because of their usage of
Windows. Sad, isn't it?

Posts show up from time to time on this list with words I find
objectionable. No one comments about that issue, but if I top post,
"Katie bar the door!"

Jeffrey A. McCright

(Removing self from the list)