From: wthyde1953@gmail.com   
      
   Chris Buckley wrote:   
      
   > If the sentiment of the group is that only liberals are allowed to post   
   > freely about politics, all others must be discouraged, then I will obey the   
   > sentiment of the group. But I don't believe that is the case.  Is it?   
      
   Back when we had three hundred posts a day, political discussions were   
   something of a problem (at least the ones to which I did not contribute   
   my infinite wisdom).  Why, sometimes my right index finger got sore from   
   clicking  through them!   But now that we have about twenty posts a day,   
   a political discussion involving a further twenty posts would not be a   
   hardship.   
      
   Besides, now I have a killfile.   
      
   (On a similar topic, the splitting of the sf groups made sense in the   
   1990s, now it makes no sense at all.  If all sf posts were made to only   
   one group we would be better off.)   
      
      
   Things change without rhyme or reason.  There was a time, a long time,   
   when the top three posters, by a wide margin, were conservatives (not   
   that I can assert that all would be maga nowadays).   
      
   In those days Terry was quite a bit more liberal, as fit his contrarian   
   inclinations.  Not actually liberal, but not the voice he has been since   
   late in the last decade.  He occasionally wanted to be worth talking to.   
     And was.   
      
   I had good discussions with one of the three, and some with another, who   
   was a bit insane but not politically so.  I regret the departure of two   
   of the three.   
      
   But nobody drove them out.   
      
      
   William Hyde   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)