Oops, sorry I should have said Steve. patrick On 15 Nov 2011, at 09:22, Steve Fisher wrote:
Joe?
From: paw@wirelessbeehive.com Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 02:51:10 -0700 To: utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Discussions
Ok, "admin" is back. :)
Actually it's "co-admin" since I'm not the only one.
Joe is right in that U-A is not a SLAS list.
As for Joe's statement that I might be able to "guide us back", well, the phrase "herding cats" comes to mind.
FWIW, Yes, I am a co-admin and as such do have the ability to kick people off the list. But not even the infamous creationism and climate change "discussions" moved me to exercise that ability.
In my mind, U-A is basically a version of the ATSs (Advanced Training Sessions) held after most SLAS functions. At those shindigs just about everything gets discussed including, occasionally, astronomy. :)
Those of you who know me know that with a few exceptions my politics tend to lean to the left so I tend to be pretty open minded about what gets discussed here. I really don't like censorship. That's what everyone's delete key is for. No one forces any of us to read anything here we don't want to.
So let us try to keep it to astronomy most of the time. But if we drift off into other things every now and then I hope most will understand that eventually things will settle down and the cats will herd them selves.
patrick