[pct-l] PCT-L now in forum format

[Jim & Jane Moody]

>I will not allow Ned or anyone else to encourage the 
>average hiker to enter terrain that even Ned and his group bailed on, 
>especially using postholer.com resources. It's plainly irresponsible. 


The genuinely irresponsible action is censoring an opinion that is supported by year s of wilderness experience and training.  Agree or disagree, fine.  Argue your position and support with facts, anecdotes, weather maps, whatever.  But to censor a poster with Ned's experience because you disagree strikes me as the height of Narcissism.  I thought the web was about the free exchange of ideas.  Guess I was wrong. 

Mango 




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From: "PCT List" <pctlist at gmail.com> 
To: pct-l at backcountry.net 
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 11:41:35 PM 
Subject: [pct-l] PCT-L now in forum format 

My best guess is the PCT-L is actively read (not subscribed) by about 
300 people a day. By contrast, the postholer site has thousands of 
unique visitors daily logging many, many thousands of page views (not 
hits) daily. You, the good folks of the PCT-L community dispensing 
fantastic advice, have been introduced to a another community who is 
unaware of your existence. 

We can bicker about our little fiefdoms all day long. At the end of 
the day it's about creating awareness of the PCT, period. This is 
another means of doing just that and it's a good one. Not only do the 
2 unique entities still retain their identity, they loosely combine 
for a larger presence. No fragmentation here, quite the opposite. 

Wes, I sincerely appreciate your comments. As a webmaster the 'smart' 
play would have been the path of objectivity. As a commercial venture 
that would have been my play. As a human and a hiker, subjectivity was 
the only path. I will not allow Ned or anyone else to encourage the 
average hiker to enter terrain that even Ned and his group bailed on, 
especially using postholer.com resources. It's plainly irresponsible. 

-postholer 
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