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[bird <birdwl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fellow Listers,

I've been out of the loop since late last week because my phone went 
out and my phone company (Sprint), at least here, are borderline 
incompetents.  (Just say no to dial-up, people.  Just say no.)  So I 
thought to include all my pent-up comments in one post for easy 
ignoring and the like.  Here goes.

Someone asked (Shawn, I think) if people can be kicked off the list.  I 
believe I can answer a resounding "yes" to that.  If someone feels any 
lister is a disruptive force or deserves discipline, the thing to do 
(as per decree) is to inform the List Imperator of it.  His email addy 
is pmm@igtc.com.  I'm sure he doesn't want to be inundated with this 
sort of thing from his lists, but perhaps individual listers will think 
it necessary.  Perhaps those listers feel that the list itself 
shouldn't have to deal with those disruptive forces, to begin with.  
Anyway, that's the system.

As for virii, I have a facetious comment and a real one.  All you 
wintel users could switch over to a UNIX box, you know.  The number of 
UNIX virii are in single digits, I think; I believe wintel virii number 
in the hundreds of thousands.  Of course, you could also use a good 
anti-virus program, which is probably less drastic.  However, the more 
users of a platform, the more chance of virus.  Secondly, people whose 
machines are infected with a computer virus and refuse to do anything 
about it are acting irresponsibly and are potentially endangering 
everyone whose email address they are in possession of.  At best it's 
callous, and at worst, it's malicious.

Private email is just that: private.  It's not cool to be sending it to 
the list.

How about we discontinue dogging people for not making predictions 
(yet, or even ever)?  It has no relevance that I can see.

I agree with Jim Hill about the trial-related subject.  I mention it 
because I think he'd be surprised; I was.  But his comment about the 
best and worst thing about the US is right on.  (That is to say, I 
agree.)  It would be best if people could feel free to tell the truth 
in court; that's how it's supposed to be, but judging people by how 
things "ought" to be instead of how they really are sort of negates the 
difference between the two states, and that's dangerous, imo.  Though 
we'd probably all like to see those who commit violent assault be 
punished/rehabilitated/segregated, what's most important for Paul 
Pierce is to get all with his life and not let the cowardly assault on 
his person eclipse the rest of it.

It's "Tommy" Adams, not "Tony", isn't it?  Not that it matters much.  
He's not going to be around for very long.  Though it is gratifying to 
see the C's bring in a pg for training camp, if only to foster 
competition for the spot.  Maybe it'll make whoever ends up with big 
minutes at the position better.  Probably won't have a big effect, but 
it's still nice to see.

If anyone gets any more information on the book that was mentioned (you 
know, the one with the ballhoggedly Paul Pierce taking up all that 
cover space and not sharing), please forward it to me if possible.  
Sounds like my kind of tome.

There's more to say (you know what I'm talking about), but I've already 
sent my emails to Paul Moriarty, so what good would it do?  He'll 
handle it as he sees fit.  He doesn't always read the list, though, so 
if you want to him to know something, you've got to tell him.

Bird