[TheForge] Thank God for theForge

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Maybe your right.  I have saved posts from the Forge dated at least as 
far back  as 96, so I have been around for all of those, and I was on 
rec.crafts.metalworking before that and lived through the altavoz period 
as well.   I do believe that the overall tone and typical demeanor of 
theForge participants is far more friendly and tolerant.  Although there 
have been a couple of brush fires a year, they seem to burn themselves 
out and people then move on to the next topic, not just the next flame 
war.   I think I just deleted the gun control thread after the first 
couple of days, the rest you list admitedly got tiresome pretty quick as 
well, but were at least germaine to this list and its operation.   About 
the only time I got uncomfortable was when Roy and Ron (as I recall) 
were going at each other.   Both have left for their own reasons, which 
is unfortunate, since both posted things at one time or another that I 
valued enough to save.   All in all , no one has shot anyone else on the 
list in self defense or otherwise, ABANA rethunk itself and came up with 
a compromise position on anvil shoots, there is relatively little 
profanity on the list, and anybody who is bothered by off topic posts 
need only start an on topic one to fix it.

Charles
    

Daniel Crowther wrote:

> Hehehe hehehe good one,
>
> I guess you weren't around for: gun control, anvil shoots, swearing, 
> "off topic" vs "on topic", just to name a few.
>
> Dan Crowther
> http://www.oakandacorn.com