Re: Posting Limits: WAS Anti's, posting, and small SNM quantities

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

Let's keep Radsafe open and unlimited for posting. Let your fingers 
do the censorship.

I am also a member on the  MedPhysics Listserver. They have 
implemented a 2 posting per day limit. Most of the time, that isn't a 
problem. However, on a day where there might be a news article that 
is directly medical physics related, I post it. Then there are 2 
other questions where I can actually provide a response to the 
individual, where general posting to the listserver would also be 
advantageous. So, I am limited to posting one reply generally, and 
the 2nd, to the individual only. After that, I usually do not go back 
and post what would have been useful to the listserver since that may 
limit responding to a new posting.

Limits may be fine, but with the cross-section of radiation 
protection needs and capabilities on Radsafe, there are often many 
threads which should elicit a response from someone. Limits will 
dampen the spirit here.

As far as non-professional members, as I've already stated, I don't 
believe in a "closed" membership. In those cases, as of late, where 
the same drivel is being spewed, as was the case again last night, re-
defining natural versus man-made radiation .. we simply should 
ignore. The insinuations by non-technical individuals on Radsafe is 
no different than one of us going to a medical listserver, 
predominantly made up of physicians, and then insinuating all kinds 
of things regarding medical treatment, pharmaceutical prescriptions, 
diagnosis, etc. We have no business interfering and questioning a 
group of professionals when we have absolutely no training, 
background or understanding of what they work with. To ask a good 
question is perfectly fine, but to ignore the answer with fantasy, 
well that's another thing.

In the case above, where all we see is drivel, conjecture and plain 
nonsense, just hit the delete key and move on. I will no longer reply 
or provide any feedback to many of these ridiculous posts where the 
only goal is to elicit infighting amongst the Radsafers who truly 
come here to learn.

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