Re: [SARES] No politics here, please!

I agree with Strata.  This is not an appropriate use of this list; I do not want to open this kind of solicitation!

Raymond, KF6EAH 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Strata R Chalup 
  To: sares-list@INTERNET. sunnyvaleares.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 5:32 PM
  Subject: [SARES] No politics here, please!



  Political messages aren't appropriate for the SARES list.  Send to sunnyvalecafe@INTERNET. groups.yahoo.com or similar Sunnyvale open forum instead.  

  I'm here for SARES-related announcements and content, not to hear soapbox statements from list members.  I'm sure we all have views we could share, but this isn't the place.

  Strata
  KF6NBZ

  ---- Original message ----
  >Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 13:17:15 -0700 (PDT)
  >From: "P. Stewart" <pstewart99@INTERNET. yahoo.com>  
  >Subject: [SARES] Letter to Murky News  
  >To: sares-list@INTERNET. sunnyvaleares.org
  >
  >   Sunnyvale Library of the Future?
  >      We recently received a slick brochure touting the wonder
  >   of a new Sunnyvale library.  What is not acknowledged is
  >   that in the last 10 or 12 years, much of the function of a
  >   library has been supplanted by the World Wide Web.  I find
  >   myself frequently researching a subject or historical fact,
  >   but have not been to the library in several years.
  >   If this reality were faced and much of the current library
  >   research material were replaced by an expanded patron
  >   internet access, would this not leave plenty of extra space
  >   in the current facility for novels and items not well served
  >   by the internet? 
  >      Further, although touted as ‘just $108 million’,
  >   truthful disclosure would reveal that with interest over 30
  >   years, this amounts to between $270 and $300 million!
  >   Reality is that a “Library of the Future” is not a new
  >   brick and mortar shrine, but facing reality in adapting and
  >   making use of the technology that Sunnyvale and the rest of
  >   the valley in internationally famous for, for a whole lot
  >   less than $300 million dollars of tax burden for we and our
  >   children.
  >   Phil Stewart K6PHL
  >
  >
  >
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