[Paddle] are we done - and another lesson or 2

[Floyd.Gene at mail.dc.state.fl.us]

What I don't understand is how a solitary 2-line post answering a question
asked a couple of days ago by a list member can have so many replies to it.

It was a simple informational post that could have been noted by those who
were wondering about it (someone was because they asked) and left
un-replied.

Incidentally, it just hit me that there was something to be learned from the
cause of death that some might have caught if they were looking for such
things; aspiration of water, no doubt caused by exhaustion and hypothermia,
should not have occurred with a proper offshore (Type I) PFD. I can almost
guarantee they were wearing one of those silly little ski-vest looking
things that I believe should be outlawed or at least strongly discouraged
for offshore use as they don't keep the user's head above the water,
especially when it's rough.

If I'm not interested in a particular subject line, I simply don't read it.
Perhaps some should try that instead of filling our inboxes with reply after
reply containing incomplete sentences, not-so-subtle hints, and some answers
that make absolutely no sense whatsoever like the one-word reply
("heatstroke") to this same question a couple of days ago.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: paddle-bounces at paddletally.org [mailto:paddle-
> bounces at paddletally.org] On Behalf Of ~Suzanne~
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 1:13 PM
> To: paddle at paddletally.org
> Subject: Re: [Paddle] are we done
> 
> At 9:31 AM -0800 3/3/05, Cyndi Brown wrote:
> 
> >Her interests dont necessarily dictate what others may want to discuss I
> wouldnt think.
> 
> Never said it did.
> 
> Just voicing my opinion about never ending e-mails imagining the terror
> and panic before death the two must have went thru over and over and over.
> Isn't there a 'throes of death' list for that kind of thing? Along with
> all the conjecture and finger pointing and asking for cause of death, as
> if we didn't know. I have on-going anxiety that my son will be drafted for
> Iraqi fodder or killed by our own Marines. I don't want to keep re-living
> stories of sons' suffering, I want the info once but don't want this
> constant flailing and gnashing of teeth.
> 
> How many more days of it? I'm considering dropping from the list if I have
> to read anymore about the boys awful deaths. Not that anyone cares. ;] Or
> maybe start up the roadless rule discussion or pave a trail.
> 
> S :]
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