[nfb-talk] Blind people deserve alibraryexperiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!

[C Applegate]

My thoughts exactly.
Well said.

Clint
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna" <atagal at tbaytel.net>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve 
alibraryexperiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!


> It would seem to me that someone like Tom could not make trouble on a list
> if the folks on the list would simply ignore him.  First by not responding
> to his inane statements and second by deleting all future notes from him.
> Soon he would be talking to cyber space and who would care?
>
> Donna
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Alan Wheeler" <awheeler at neb.rr.com>
> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 23, 2006 6:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a
> libraryexperiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>
>
>> Personally?  I agree with Mr. Andrews assessment of your purpose here. 
>> If
>> all you intend to do is cause trouble, I hope you decide to do it
>> somewhere
>> other than here.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tom Mills" <tmills79 at bellsouth.net>
>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 10:59 PM
>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library
>> experiencereadingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>>
>>
>>>I think the NFB News Line news paper service has quite possibly
>>>over-reached
>>> its intended purpose. I do not know of any other organization like NFB
>>> News
>>> Line. It is apparent to me that information based on your Email that 
>>> News
>>> Line has become to big and powerful that is in need of a major down
>>> sizing.
>>> I feel that my criticism of News Line is justified and Appreciated by 
>>> the
>>> Nation Office of the National Federation of the Blind.    ----- Original
>>> Message ----- 
>>> From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 10:29 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience
>>> readingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>>>
>>>
>>>> Tom:
>>>>
>>>> As usual you are trying to create a problem, th4en use it to beat on 
>>>> the
>>>> NFB.  As William said, if we are so evil, why do you stick around.  You
>>>> make yourself a nuisance on one list, get moderated, then move to
>>>> another.
>>>> Is NFB-talk your latest target?
>>>>
>>>> And, as for Newsline, each state has a local channel where a variety of
>>>> publications can be put.  In MN for example we have newsletters from
>>>> both
>>>> NFB and acb state affiliates, the Library for the blind newsletter,
>>>> transit news, and the schedule for our radio reading service.  We will
>>>> add
>>>> Minnesota Monthly soon.
>>>>
>>>> This is the only potential place on Newsline where stuff other then
>>>> newspapers would be.  The only people politicizing Newsline are the ACB
>>>> who use it, but oppose it at every turn because it is from the NFB.  If
>>>> you take away opposition to the NFB from the ACB, little is left.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>> At 12:46 AM 7/22/2006, you wrote:
>>>>>The trouble with most members of the federation is a complete always
>>>>>stubborn resistance to suggestions for change.  Every one on this list
>>>>>knows
>>>>>that I have questioned the fairness and management of the NFB News Line
>>>>>news
>>>>>paper Service.
>>>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>>From: "Wm. Ritchhart" <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>
>>>>>To: "'NFB Talk Mailing List'" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>>>>Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:30 AM
>>>>>Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience
>>>>>readingthenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Did I miss something?  Considering that the only thing I have seen
>>>>>> about
>>>>>> NFB Newsline recently was a post from the ACB leadership list
>>>>>> encouraging the ACB membership to try to stop the Federal funding for
>>>>>> NFB Newsline.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The post made claims that any knowledgeable person would recognize as
>>>>>> untrue.  In the normal ACB fashion, the post demonstrated that if NFB
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> creating something, the members of the ACB in general will be against
>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One last thing.  I have a question for you Tom.  Why do you bother
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> us NFB folks?  I personally wouldn't waste my time with people whom I
>>>>>> thought were so evil and always wrong.  It just seems that you could
>>>>>> find a better use of your time doing something other than making 
>>>>>> angry
>>>>>> post to an email list made up mostly of people who have beliefs that
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> totally different from your own.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> William
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>> From: nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>>>>>> [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
>>>>>> On Behalf Of Tom Mills
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 1:15 AM
>>>>>> To: 4alabama at nfbnet.org
>>>>>> Cc: nfblaw at nfbnet.org; alabama at acb.org; acb-l at acb.org;
>>>>>> nfb-talk at nfbnet.org; acb-chat at acb.org
>>>>>> Subject: [nfb-talk] Blind people deserve a library experience reading
>>>>>> thenewspaper! NFB News Line Fails that!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I too wonder where the blind community is when they turn their backs
>>>>>> on
>>>>>> decency and respect for an unbiased library experience while reading
>>>>>> the
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alabama NFB News Line Service. The Federation is more interested in
>>>>>> promoting its blind advocacy program; like filing frivolous law suits
>>>>>> mostly
>>>>>> for the sake of publicity and all the while knowing that most
>>>>>> government
>>>>>>
>>>>>> agencies and big business concerns will quietly settle crappy law
>>>>>> suits
>>>>>> in
>>>>>> the legal settlement mill. Remember I am talking about the National
>>>>>> Federation of the Blind! The NFB News Line should never be used to
>>>>>> promote
>>>>>> NFB's advocacy positions and federation policies. Also, the Alabama
>>>>>> chapter
>>>>>> of the National Federation of the Blind should not be permitted to 
>>>>>> use
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> NFB News Line Service to advance the reputation of Mister J. Michael
>>>>>> Jones,
>>>>>> the Alabama affiliates state NFB president.  NFB President Doctor 
>>>>>> Marc
>>>>>> Maurer has said that the NFB News Line Service has "A Special
>>>>>> relationship
>>>>>> with the news paper industry publishers participating on News Line."
>>>>>> Let
>>>>>> me
>>>>>> tell you something all you girls and guys, that frightens me!  I
>>>>>> believe
>>>>>>
>>>>>> that the NFB News Line Service should be held above any and all
>>>>>> politics
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> the sake of the blind community and most of all to provide blind news
>>>>>> paper
>>>>>> readers an honest library experience.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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