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P.S. Upon reflection, I think it was RPGA, not GAMA, that we had a
problem with many years ago.
Sorry for mixing up my anagrams.;-)

On Dec 27, 10:53 pm, jethrotull <mickieandfr...@charter.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone.  Hope y'all had a Merry Christmas and got plenty of
> gaming in over the holidays.
> Look, I don't know what to make of this letter I got from Paul
> Cardwell, so I decided to post it here and let everyone read it---no
> editing done, this is just a the way I got it; a simple cut & paste
> (which by the way is the extent of my computer graphics knowledge.
>
> It seems Paul thinks I've insulted him and if I did, I apologize.  I
> read something that I didn't agree with, and I wrote a note basically
> saying same.  In fact
> as I re-read the posts, I find I agree with him on most counts.  I
> don't think he wants game conventions to get a bad reputation, and
> neither do I.  We seem (or I thought we seemed) to have othet things
> in common as well--like freedom of speech without being bullied.
>
> When I first met Paul, it was by phone, waaay back when D&D was still
> owned by TSR and I answered an small ad about CAR-PGa.  He was
> gracious and informative.  He was a Methodist minister, and I grew up
> Methodist, so I felt a kinship of sorts.  He explained the toils and
> troubles CAR-PGa had had with GAMA and some other insider stuff that,
> of course, I was completely ignorant of.  I thank him for widening my
> horizons.  Then, about a year later, I made a horrible faux pas.  You
> know when your sub to the newsletter ends?  And Paul puts a check mark
> on the back page indicating it was time to renew?  Well, I took great
> offense at that--somehow thinking it was wrong to assume I was going
> to renew, or wrong becuase it seemed rude, or really--I was just an
> ass that day.  Paul wrote me a note explaining the situation and
> offering to NOT use the checkmark method with me again and letting me
> know that at one time he thought it would be fun if I lived closer, so
> we might game together--but now he had changed his mind.  I can't
> blame him.  As I said--I was an ass, and far from tactful or
> considerate.  I did apologize, and have tried to send pertinent
> material for the archives over the years (though my contributions are
> admittedly very slim).
> Now that the history lesson is over, recently it has seemed to me that
> a lot of this forum has devolced into political discussion and
> intrigue that I find....BOOO--RING.  If you can figure out the what
> the last 3 paragraphs of Paul's missive to me (republicrats, and
> Soviet non-people people, and Al Gore) mean, and how they are relevant
> to role-playing games, please write me and let me know.  I felt the
> same way before:  there was some discourse a while back about the Boy
> Scouts, and I never followed that one into this little niche hobby we
> all share.  But, I figured--no skin off my nose.
>
> As for Paul's mention that tradition dictates that all posts remain
> true to the title, as I said earlier, I'm not a computer person.  As I
> also said, I'm a freedom person and I don't believe going off an a
> tangent in a forum about fantasy games that encourage thinking is
> going to cause the world to slip off its axis.
>
> To all of you, a Happy New Year!  And now, a few words from the
> Chairman:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Tact  and consideration?  Is that what you call an ad hominem
> outburst?  You have previously asserted your t-totaler status,
> therefore how can my comments be directed at you personally?
>
> If there has never been an Animal House game convention (and to my
> limited knowledge there has not), does it follow that there can never
> be, no matter how the environment is changed?  That has always been my
> concern, considering that high-priced alcohol has always been
> availble, but not free and promoted.
>
> Yes, the "previous letter" was quite innocent and on the general
> subject at hand, but you chose to employ the tactics of the schoolyard
> and the reprehensible aspects of the recent election and accuse the
> opposition of the tactics you are emplying in order to make any
> defense against that accusation easily reduced to "you're one too".
> Yes it worked quite well in the last election campaign (although not
> quite as effective as the Soviet "nonperson" tactic used by
> Republicrats against me), but just as that has damaged the country, so
> your tactics are damaging CAR-PGa.
>
> second letter
>
> It is the tradition in online discussions to keep to one topic.  You
> kept to one topic (personal attacks on me) in two postings in the same
> day, it shouldn't be too hard to separate two topics into two postings
> on the same day.  The reason for this is particularly relevant to CAR-
> PGa - archival cataloging - as any of the multitudinous professional
> librarians and published researchers in the group can explain.
> Remember, the Internet was originally set up for communication between
> the Pentagon and the various universities they had under contract.
> When Congress expanded it to the general public (and Al Gore was
> indeed a sponsor of that bill), many of the same academic features
> were retained, this being one of them.
>
> As for parsnips, I have not tried them either, connecting them to the
> great line from Pogo, "There's nothing worse than unignited love,
> 'cept maybe coddled parsnips or french-fried watermellon!"  And I
> would put Andre Segovia or Pepe Romero, or on a different but related
> instrument, Ravi Shankar, far above Page and Hendrix.
>
> Paul

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