[pct-l] Trimming messages....this will be my last complaint

Carol museumgirl at me.com
Mon Apr 21 13:32:12 CDT 2014 

Matt, I do hope you are kidding. Diane's posts are the main reason I keep coming to this forum. I delete about 90% of the other "information" posted here. IMHO, Diane is the most level-headed hiker in the PCT community. I value her input. 

Carol

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> On Apr 21, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Matt Signore <mpsignore at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> What bums me out is all the stupid redundant stuff actually posted to this
> extremely antiquated "forum".  How many times have I had to delete a
> 1,000,000 word soliloquy from Diane Soini rambling on and on and on.  Add
> Switchbacks need to post his fictional creative writing.  Quite frankly I
> don't come to any list to read fiction I go to a book store.  So a
> redundant untrimmed message shouldn't really set you off.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:45 PM, John Casterline <tnx4asking at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I agree
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Jackie McDonnell <yogihikes at gmail.com
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I *like* untrimmed messages.  It allows me to know exactly which email
>> the
>>> person is responding to, without going back to read previous emails.
>>> 
>>> If you don't want to read the previous messages at the bottom of the
>> email,
>>> just don't scroll down.
>>> 
>>> Yogi
>>> www.yogisbooks.com
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 12:24 PM, JoAnn <jomike at cot.net> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you for trimming your messages in the future.
>>>> 
>>>> are we there yet
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I grew up near and educated in the city of brotherly go F yourself.
>> For
>>>> that reason I am less trusting of people.  In Philadelphia if someone
>>> asks
>>>> you what time it is they are just judging whether your watch is worth
>>>> stealing.
>>>> 
>>>> Once on the AT I was hiking with 4 other people we come to a road
>>> crossing
>>>> and a guy pulls up and offers to slack pack us 1 mile to the next road
>>>> crossing.  Well 4 out of the 5 of us threw their packs into the back of
>>> the
>>>> truck.  I was sitting there with my pack on and the truck pulls away.
>> I
>>>> asked the people that threw their packs into the back of the truck if
>>> they
>>>> knew the guy.  They looked at me like they saw a ghost.  Because no one
>>>> knew him.  When they got to the next road crossing luckily their gear
>> was
>>>> there.
>>>> 
>>>> So, sometimes people make bad decisions with their gear, and get away
>>> with
>>>> it.  Other times people make bad decisions with their gear, and someone
>>>> else gets away with stealing said persons stuff.
>>>> 
>>>> If the business doesn't allow backpacks inside go to the next business.
>>>> Maybe I am a jerk for not caring when peoples unattended gear gets
>>> stolen,
>>>> but I don't care one iota.
>>>> 
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MT3CihStFQ
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Gail Van Velzer <wrote">
>>>> vanvelzer at charter.net>wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Sad.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Jackie McDonnell" <yogihikes at gmail.com>
>>>>> To: "pct-l" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
>>>>> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 8:02 AM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Help for Harry
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Gail -
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> MANY restaurants and stores will not allow hikers to bring their
>>> packs
>>>>>> inside.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yogi
>>>>>> www.yogisbooks.com
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Gail Van Velzer
>>>>>> <wrote">vanvelzer at charter.net>wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I guess I just never let those things out of my site.  Not on the
>>>> trail
>>>>>>> and not in any public place.  Maybe I've been in the city too
>> long!
>>>> LOL!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jackie McDonnell"
>>>>>>> <yogihikes at gmail.com
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> To: "pct-l" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 7:48 AM
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Help for Harry
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hikers walk away from their packs all the time:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Leave it outside the Post Office, a store, or a restaurant.
>>>>>>>> Leave it on the trail when you go off trail to pee/poop.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Packs get stole in these situations more frequently than you
>> might
>>>>>>>> imagine.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Yogi
>>>>>>>> www.yogisbooks.com
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Gail Van Velzer <
>>>>> vanvelzer at charter.net
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I'd like to know how a backpack gets stolen from under your
>> nose?
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>>> From: "Matt Signore" <mpsignore at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> To: "David Frauzel" <dfrauzel at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> Cc: "pct-l" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
>>>>>>>>> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2014 6:55 AM
>>>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [pct-l] Help for Harry
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> "Knowing your stuff"  includes not leaving everything you need
>>> for
>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> next
>>>>>>>>>> 5 months unattended in a US Mexico border town.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2014 at 1:56 PM, David Frauzel <
>>>> dfrauzel at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> I just met a gentleman named Harry (I think, I am awful with
>>>> names)
>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>> San Diego / Otay Ranch REI. This poor guy had his entire pack
>>>>> stolen
>>>>>>>>>>> at
>>>>>>>>>>> Campo a few days back and has been rebuilding his kit since.
>> I
>>>>>>>>>>> missed
>>>>>>>>>>> catching him on the way out to offer a ride or anything else
>> he
>>>>>>>>>>> could
>>>>>>>>>>> possibly need, and feel pretty bad for him. If anyone happens
>>> to
>>>>>>>>>>> meet
>>>>>>>>> him
>>>>>>>>>>> on his way north, I imagine he could use a little help. (Or
>>> maybe
>>>>>>>>>>> not,
>>>>>>>>>>> he's
>>>>>>>>>>> done the CDT already, knows his stuff!)
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> He isn't on this list but I'll wish him the best of luck from
>>>> here.
>>>>>>>>>>> Better
>>>>>>>>>>> luck than he had in Campo at least! :(
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