Ok, why do we *NEED* a mission statement? Who is requiring us to have a mission statement? Oh how I long for the discussions about which VM to use in the Linux kernel..... -----Original Message----- From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org] On Behalf Of Nathan Davis Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 11:30 PM To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Installfest stuff Well, okay, here's my point: 1) Mr. Cole states that the TCLUG has no statement of mission 2) Mr. Underground responds by what *he* thinks TCLUG is, which is either anarchic or democratic (he doesn't specify which). Mr. Underground does not refute the assertion that TCLUG has no mission. In fact, certain statements seem to indicate his agreement (i.e., he doesn't *want* a mission statement as he feels that the mere existence of such a thing inherently lends itself to a hierarchial structure -- Mr. Underground, feel free to correct my interpretation of your statements on this matter). 3) In the process of expressing his opinions, Mr. Underground made (slightly) veiled attacks on Mr. Cole. He also expessed that TCLUG has "morals". 4) I asked two questions in the hopes that Mr. Underground would think about what he was saying. How can a group that has no mission statement have morals? Was it even incepted? To what purpose? If the group is really "ruled" by its members, then shouldn't the members get together to decide on a mission? As to noise-to-signal ratio: 1) < does not imply noise 2) The correlation between signal strength (i.e., meaningfulness) and signal length (i.e., number of lines or character) is not 1. As to trimming: yes, I should have trimmed some of it. --Nathan Davis On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 21:38, Brian wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Nathan Davis wrote: > > 90 lines of <, <<, <<<, <<<<, <<<<<'s (deleted) > > To which he follows up with: > > > No IMHO > > That's a 90:1 noise/signal ratio!!! that's painful, even for us high > bandwidth folks. This flamewar has become so fascinating that I haven't > said anything til now, but geez, TRIM YOUR POSTS for crying out loud!! > > -Brian > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list