[SEL] SEL ethics

[Curt]

OK Peter I'll type a few thoughts. Just remember you did solicit them!

1) The internet is a PUBLIC forum not a private forum! What you say here 
is a good as printed in the newpaper for all to see. Had you really 
intended to solicit private input you should have contacted a bunch of 
folk off list and asked the conversation remain confidential.

2) Leave the politics at work! Life is too short to carry petty politics 
into your beloved hobby. This is supposed to be fun dude....

3) Why on earth are you making such a big deal over something as petty 
as a club badge? Be glad your club has any kind of badge at all. Most 
here don't. I'm just thankful Peg Pfeiffer made our badges a few years 
ago. I wear that to each and every show we attend. Thank you Peg.

4) You and a few buddies don't like the club badge selection? Wot is 
stopping you from simply making what you want? Just do it and get on 
with the fun of engines and tractors. Read #2 again.

Club divide is awful. Ask Glenn Karch about the SIAM building sometime. 
I'm thankful our Cotton Ginning Club seems to be able to get along. 
Maybe we are all just too old and it is too much effort to create a 
ruckus about anything :-) . But I think we all recognize that it is a 
special situation that we all get along so well and that all of our 
energies are spent building the show rather than spinning our wheels on 
silly political battles.

Mend those fences and get back to why you are in the hobby.... To play 
with kewl machinery and socialize with great people.
Curt Holland
Gastonia, NC


peter ogborne wrote:

> I would appreciate any comments on the following.....
>
> I recently posted my thoughts on club badges,in particular those 
> adopted by my club.These were my  personal opinions and i sought 
> comments by other SEL members. It seems that someone on the list took 
> these comments and gave them to a non subscriber who in turn used them 
> to make a personal attack on me at a club meeting. I was not present 
> at the meeting as i live 400km away and only attend occasional 
> meetings.I could not defend myself and the attacker did not have the 
> intestinal fortitude to advise me of his comments. A friend and fellow 
> club member  relayed them to me.
> It does not concern me at all that there is disagreement in my 
> comments , i have made them known to the club at a previous meeting 
> and in a letter to our club news letter. So it is nothing new.
> What does concern me is is that my comments on SEL which by the way 
> did not mention names has been used in this way. We are not bound by 
> any secrecy act but i would have thought common decency would have 
> prevailed. What went on the SEL was between me and fellow SEL members 
> ,i gave my thoughts and sought those of others. It should not have 
> been passed to a non list person and used against me in this way at a 
> club meeting.
> One thing that i have retained here is my opinion,that has not 
> changed. What i would like is the person who passed this on to contact 
> me off list and we will discuss it.