Re: please don't go political/ NICK

[Guest guest]

I am sure that the

> ASBS would not be opposed to us voicing our concerns to our

> senators and members of Congress.

>

> Best-

>

> Nick in Sage who now only briefly comes up for air . . .

>

Nick;

One of the nice things about these OSSG/WLS Yahoo groups is

that there is a group for just about every occasion. There are

ones for WLS-Insurance problems, for exercising pre & post

surgery, for post-surgery recipes, for problems post surgery, and

oh yes! there's ones specifically for Legislation. It's Called

< >.

The point is, each group does not necessarily have to be about

every pertinent issue. I tried to post a very important insurance

message on the open OSSG list and within 48 hours of posting

it, I got a private email from the list owner telling me that it had

been disallowed because the scope of the open group did not

include insurance! How weird is that, huh?That totally amazed

me that the open group does not allow insurance issues but the

list owner has a clear idea about what they want to focus on and

obviously, it is more narrow than I would pick. I got a nice note

referring me to one of the insurance groups.

My point is, the list owners have every right to decide what they

want a particular group to be about - period. However, I think that

one will always be able to refer folks over to the legislation

group. That would be an ideal place to have the political

discussions you would like to engage in. People over there will

be on the same page so to speak because they are all there to

try to effect change in the laws.

You won't be reading any " Conga-rats " , or about swinging

chickens over there.

Polictical discussion of this type does not promote a

pro-active spirit on a general list whereas the legislation group

can be very pro-active. It hasn't been very active in a long time so

it will take getting folks to join it but I'm a member too and would

love to see this happen. In other words, I'm in your corner on this,

I just think it needs to be moved to another forum.

gobo