On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 15:39:43 GMT, Ken Fortenberry
wrote:

wrote:
salmobytes wrote:
A a year or so ago I mentioned ...
whine snipped

...
IAC, I have a coupla-three questions: who makes you read this NG, who
forces you to reply, and perhaps most importantly, why are they forcing
you to post replies that serve no purpose whatsoever other than to stir
the same ****pot you claim drives off the people you claim to lament
losing? And whatever the alleged cause and/or effect, why do care about
any of it?

Yeah, it's interesting to me that the "legendary" fly
fishermen like His Loony Mikeness and Pittendrigh find
other forums to be more educated, more informative, more
civil etc. etc., yet here they remain whining about the
downfall of roff.

Why is that ?

Um, well, hence my question to Sandy...

Anyhoo, I've never seen Sandy toot his own horn, so to speak, so I'm not
sure where your "legendary" comment comes from as to him. In fact, I've
not purposefully ignored him (but if he wrote something in a thread that
did catch my attention...), and other than the apparent, um, slapfight
betwixt y'all, I don't recall any real "shtick" or anything
controversial from him.

I would offer that to blame some decline in posts on any one person is
pretty silly, but hey, if that's his opinion... I did see Tom's comment
but that wasn't Sandy making claims; while I don't know how Tom or
anyone else could really know how one of us unknown FFers had
contributed more to the sport than another unknown, I would accept Tom's
word that when Sandy opens his mouth with regard to FFing, he knows of
what he speaks - again, EMMV.

TC,
R