[GreenKeys] was supposed to be a fun thread

COURYHOUSE at aol.com COURYHOUSE at aol.com
Fri Mar 15 01:36:26 EDT 2013 

wow   yea...  it was like... 
 everyone entered the red hour  and 
'Festival' started   
 
heh ... are you of the body?
 
 
In a message dated 3/14/2013 7:17:12 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
gil at baudot.net writes:

Hey folks:


Sheesh, this thread got a little bit out of control.  But nobody  
complained, on or off list, until today, and nobody unsubscribed, so I just  let it 
go.  It happens every five years or so, and I don't see anything  wrong with 
it as there were some very pent-up emotions from quite a few  folks.  And 
while I don't agree with everything that was said, there is  some good to be 
had in letting folks get things off their chests.   Apologies to those on the 
list who found this to be noise.


My thoughts (which may ruffle feathers, and is, of course, only my  
opinion):
- I am getting old too, and yes, there is age discrimination, and crappy  
or no pensions in the tech fields.
- I feel the financial pressures that many of our members feel.

- But, not all young folks are idiots, so Christian, don't take it  
personally -- your posts have been valuable.
- I was (er, we were) young folks too, and back then I /we probably  
thought we were one of the "good ones."
- Canada does not take our jobs.  Canada invests a lot of money  here.  But 
it is so frickin' cold there.

- FYI, I was born in Canada, and came here when I was 13 -- though I am  
now a US citizen and will die here.

- A lot of our jobs went away since it did not make sense to pay  
doctor-salaries to fender-installers.
- Times change, and we may not like it, but the only thing to do is  adapt.
- Yes, product/service quality sucks today, but it is getting better  IMHO. 
 The pendulum keeps swinging.
- I finally got rid of my Centurylink business phone line-- in over ten  
years they NEVER got rid of hum problems
  and I had them swap pairs every frickin' year.  (the old POTS  days are 
gone)
- Instead of $50/mo for a phone line, I pay $10/mo for virtualpbx, and  
have a very full-featured auto-attendant
  and each extension can be any line I want (my cell).  It has  been 
flawless.  Every now and then there is
  a little delay in the call, which is annoying, but not often, and  no HUM.



We are all big boys here on greenkeys and we (mostly) all know each  other, 
and most of us go back over a decade or more on the list.   >>> And I sure 
don't want to hear from some brand-new member about  qst policy and how we 
can't say shit/fuck/piss or any other words on George  Carlin's list.  It 
happens here VERY-infrequently, and has never been a  problem.  Look at the 
archives and you will see that this is a list  dedicated to teletype-related 
conversations, rtty info, has a collection of  very interesting people from 
repairmen to military-personel to weather station  folk to new young folks who 
find the equipment fascinating -- and I must say  that our mission, in 
addition to saving some good info in the archive so  someone a hundred years 
from now might be able to get an M15 running and get a  big shit-eating-grin on 
his face, is to pass the knowledge on.


So let's all lighten up an move on with tty stuff.


gil




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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re:  [GreenKeys] GreenKeys Digest, Vol 110, Issue 46
From: Peter Gottlieb  <_nerd at verizon.net_ (mailto:nerd at verizon.net) >
Date: Thu, March  14, 2013 4:36 pm
To: _greenkeys at mailman.qth.net_ (mailto:greenkeys at mailman.qth.net) 


No  group is complete without a critic-in-chief. ;-)

There will always be  some side discussions related to common interests of 
the 
group  members.

But, I've seen groups where it is very tightly controlled;  they tend to be 
dull 
and hardly ever have traffic, and when someone  posts, it is usually of the 
form 
"I'm not sure if I can ask this  question here..."



On 3/14/2013 7:13 PM, _greenkeys at pferris.com_ 
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>  MUCH better s/n ratio! ;-)
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