[SBE] Discussion topics

[A9xw at cs.com]

In a message dated 3/13/2008 4:14:17 PM Central Daylight Time, 
chscherer at everestkc.net writes: 

> This list can digress into the same useless chatter that I see on so many 

> of those other lists. My interest in what this list could be is incompatible 

> with that direction.

Sorry if our fun filled banter is just so much useless chatter to you. 
Personally I find SOCIALIZING small talk as much or more important in making new 
connections and drawing out the wall flowers among us as deeply theoretical 
discussions on the value of buffer overflow in MPEG multichannel multicasting data 
streams and how it may cause holes in the data stream from buffer depletion.  
Want a serious topic? Start one. Except for a few posts long ago I don't 
recall any banner headline that says for SBE organization or lofty technical 
discussion only.  

Creativity and problem solving comes from the symbiotic relationships of 
anecdotal discussions of varied topics and the juxtapositions they create that 
stimulate new thought. I am certainly not offended in any way by the bantering as 
we got into the definitions we all seem to use but are not necessarily 
equally clear to others.  I am more offended that you find it "useless chatter you 
see on other lists." 

Its your list, run it as you wish. But if this is for SBE members, don't they 
have a say in what goes here, since there is already a reflector for 
executives and committee members that the rest of us do not share? I'll stop here 
before I say something I may regret later. 

Henry Ruhwiedel CPBE, former board member, former chapter chairman.