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RE: [Ausloco] What silliness...
Pretty soon Ausloco will have nothing to administer because all the people
with the information have left or joined "private" lists. Perhaps a little
give and take from all sides might be in order. Not much point in running
Stalag Ausloco if there's no content and not much point in reading Ausloco
postings if they have nothing to do with locomotives or locomotive
movements. I think this is the nub of the matter.
Ausloco administrators, info suppliers and readers are all damned if you do
and damned if you don't.
Regards,
Brad
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Martin [mailto:semartin@idx.com.au]
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 2:33 PM
To: Ausloco
Subject: Re: [Ausloco] What silliness...
Aaaah yes. Maybe we should show the Anarchists a print out of the posts
for the last few days to show them why their preferred system of
organising society can,t, don't and won't work.
On the topic of Ausloco'ers hiving off into more 'exclusive clubs' of
mailing lists, I would like to paraphrase most crudely Oscar Wilde (or
was it George Bernard Shaw) who said words to the effect of : "I wouldn't
be a member of any club that asked me to join"...
One final note. I note that there is much use of the words 'members' and
'subscribers' in the last few threads about where this list is going. I
think that those who have joined Ausloco are very fortunate, in that the
above mentioned words are normally used in conjunction with some kind of
financial payment (a membership fee or a subscription). Remember,
Aus.loco costs nothing to join and operates on volunteer (i.e. unpaid)
labour. Therefore, the list has no value (monetary or otherwise) except
in what the members (and administrators) contribute. If all the various
talkers who criticise Aus.loco, or run off to private clubs, or just
plain leave were prepared to stump up the money to have an Aus.loco
tailored to their needs, then maybe everyone would be happy. OH, I just
realised, then we'd have a near real time desktop distributed
intelligence gathering and analysis system (I've worked with those
systems - and they cost millions of dollars and take years to get
happening). Anyone for running an Ausloco cakestall.....
Scott
I hear - I forget,
I see - I remember,
I do - I understand
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