🚀 go-pugleaf

I subscribed to this list in order to try to inform myself about the latest 
news about US and other coutnries' space programs.  I thought that this would 
be a list of technical discussions, not a religious debate that has turned 
into ad hominem attacks and flame wars as virulent as any I've seen in the 
religious news groups.  Then I see things like this, from Herman Rubin:

>Let those who want to support research decide.  But get the governments
>out of the way, including out of levying taxes on money going to research.
>If the government was not involved in the business of vainly trying to 
>manage charity, which it does in such a way as to make it financially
>advantageous for at least many of those on welfare to do nothing about
>the problem, and in the business of keeping our children very poorly
>educated, and in general making it expensive to do anything of which
>the government diasapproves, there would be the money for space activities.

and this from Henry Spencer:

>We'll be mining in space long before we exploit any of the sea-bottom
>resources.  The socialists rule the oceans and don't want any dirty
>capitalist mining venture making money off the "common property of
>mankind".  The US State Department was on the brink of giving them the
>rest of the universe too, but the L5 Society (may it rest in peace)
>managed to block Senate ratification of the infamous Moon Treaty.

Such political ranting belongs in the alt.talk.politics or alt.religion 
groups.  Could we please take them out of the space list?

In addition, there is much too much signal to noise ratio in the flame wars 
and the ad hominem attacks.  Could we move them out of the list and into 
private emails?  There is too much heat and not enough light coming out 
of them.

I know that I have now left myself wide open to being attacked from all 
sides, but I just thought that, considering the size of the mailings that I'm 
getting, there is too much of this stuff to wade through to get to anything 
worth reading.