🚀 go-pugleaf

While I am new to the Rec. Scouting fold, I find it pretty
interesting to see the listing wanting to split.  

If you think that this split will result in getting "undesirable"
topics off of the activities or policies screens, think again. 

Scouting in the USA is at a crossroads.  In a few short weeks, we will
have a new Chief Scout Executive.  Later on, the nation will have a 
new President.  Later on still, we will see Scouting again in action
at the 1993 National Scout Jamboree.  We are seeing our programs grow
in diversity and yet we are trying, some of you say with all of our 
might, to hold onto the values that made Scouting what it has been for
the past 83 years.  

I have a sticker that was given out back when we went through our 
"growing pains" in the middle 80s...you may have seen it.  It states
that "America is returning to the values that Scouting never left". 
We may be. On the other hand, we have many issues that face us as a
nation and many more that we have to confront our youth with as the
years go outward. 

For what its worth, each comment is made by a person.  Each person
took the time to think, sometimes with short fuse, other times with
much personal reflection, to type and to send their thoughts to be
shared.  By diffusing the channels in which those thoughts will travel
through the splitting of the list will do several things to those
thoughts.  First, it will make those of us that are interested in ALL
aspects of Scouting, to suscribe to two more lists.  Second, it will 
make cross-postings to all three lists a neccessity rather than a 
luxury, since you cannot talk program without talking about
administration or policy.  You cannot talk policy without it impacting
upon the programs of the Scouting program.  Third, and the most
critical of them all, it places us all into a decision-making mode as
to what is most important: the person or the comment. 

I feel that this list should continue as ONE LISTING, so that everyone
concerned with all aspects of the movement can talk about various
issues, techniques, ideas and gripes in an open forum.  

The first time I read Rec. Scouting, someone was looking for a script
for a Eagle Scout Court of Honor.  This was sandwiched in between the 
ongoing discussion of lesbigays in Scouting and various court cases
defending/against the BSA's stand of religion in the lives of its
youth and adult members.  Yet, I did not have to comment or even read 
each comment....just went to the one that I wanted, extracted it,
replied to the person and left the list and went on my business.  

We do not have to be buried into arguments or discussions we don't
wish to.  While finding questions and answers would be easier on a
list composed of all "actitivies" or all "policies", we would find 
ourselves transposing what is found on the other list onto ours. 

Leave it be. I will vote NO.  

Settummanque!

Mike Walton
Greenwood, Kentucky