Daryl's remarks hit the nail on the head and I would like to echo these sentiments. This has escalated to the point of the absurd and destructive.
Folks, take a deep breath and hesitate before you go firing off another emotion-dripping, inflammatory posting in response to an equally emotion-dripping inflammatory AND OFF-TOPIC posting. My "DELETE" key is quickly wearing out...this is NOT the forum, unless you want to provide chapter and verse for primary sources as held in your collections to for your arguments (and I'm being generous in even describing some of what has passed across this list in the past 24 hours as "argument!). If you want to be inflammatory, why not message the individuals involved...or do we need to, once again, revisit "REPLY" versus "REPLY TO LIST?"
Dennis Moser
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From: Maxwell, Daryl
Reply To: Maxwell, Daryl
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 15:15
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: What is to be done?
ENOUGH!!
I request that everyone please stop all of these threads. As someone else pointed out, in a most eloquent matter, this list is comprised of people with different nationalities, religious belief systems, and political viewpoints and we should all respect those differences and keep our own perspectives to ourselves rather than allow what was an informative disussion to continue to devolve into name calling and political fencing. Even those people asking for this to stop can not seem to resist throwing their two cents in in the last line or two of their post, just furthering the descent.
I have seem views I agree with and those I don't expressed. But the real point is that this is not the place for these ideas!! So, please, continue to post relevant information or keep your political/religious/patriotic comments to yourselves!!
Daryl Maxwell