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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thanks for the posting, Dick.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>That reminds me . . .<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Autographed copies of the “Tom and
Keely” photo, the very photo seen on the Lewiston Tribune website (as
advertised on Comb-Over Courtney’s blog) will go on sale soon in a
parking lot near you. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Heck . . . for a few bucks, I’ll
bring a soap box, a karaoke machine, and we can all do the Macarena to Doug
Wilson singing “Can’t Get Enough of that Funky Stuff”,
because . . .<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>“That’s the way I like it.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Sounds/TTWILI.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Sounds/TTWILI.mp3</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Seya there, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, and don’t forget to bring the
seat cushions this time.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=2
color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Moscow</span></font></st1:City><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>"Life should NOT be a journey to the
grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved
body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, a drink in the
other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming 'WOO HOO. What a
ride!'"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Dick Schmidt<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, February 24, 2006
5:54 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] AP Story
Question of Moscow Web forum's success up fordebate</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I noticed several mentioning something about this article a couple days
ago. I had copied it and emailed it to my wife at work. Here it is in case some
of you didn't see it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dick Schmidt<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Question of Moscow Web forum's success up for debate<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=byline><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Associated Press<br>
February 21, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>MOSCOW</span></font></st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State>
(AP) — Anything is open to debate in this northern <st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State>
town on an Internet e-mail list called <a href="http://vision2020.moscow.com/">Moscow
Vision 2020</a> — including the existence of Vision 2020 itself.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“I
believe that the most beneficial attribute of <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Moscow
Vision 2020</st1:PersonName> is its openness,” Tom Hansen, one of the
more prolific contributors, wrote in an e-mail to the Lewiston Tribune.
“It is like a community social club with the proverbial soap box and an
open mic 24/7.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On the
other end of the spectrum is Doug Wilson, pastor of <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>’s
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, who is sometimes a target of
e-mail posts on Vision 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“I
think it’s an embarrassment to the community,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Vision
2020 began in 1993, according to its Web site, “to encourage more public
information and debate about the future of <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>
and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Latah</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“For
a while it had a great public service aspect,” said Kenton Bird, director
of the University of Idaho School of Journalism and Mass Media, who helped
start the program. “For example, my cat got lost.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But it
has turned into something else, according to some in the community.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“Of
course, to a great degree, it’s a great failure because of the pettiness
and name-calling,” said Bill London, a local writer and one of the
founders of Vision 2020. “I think it really exists on its own. It’s
like an amoebae scrounging around out there.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It is an
unmoderated site, meaning posts that might be offensive to some are sent, and
unsubstantiated information is also put out. Topics have included the war in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, Wal-Mart
super centers, local politics and religion.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>What kind
of influence Vision 2020 has is hard to determine. About 500 people sign up to
receive e-mail postings, but only about 10 percent of those are active
contributors.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“The
heart and soul of this thing is only a dozen, maybe up to 50, who keep it
going,” said Bill Moore, director of technology for First Step Internet,
which sponsors Vision 2020. “It really gets to be a free-for-all. We
refuse to enforce any rules.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Moore</span></font></st1:place></st1:City> calls the
company’s sponsorship of Vision 2020 a “scary,” money-losing
proposition rooted in public service.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The rest
of the people who sign up for Vision 2020 — called “Venom
2020” by some — who read the e-mails but don’t participate
are called lurkers. How many subscribers also lurk is another difficult number
to nail down.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>“I
haven’t looked at Vision 2020 probably since the fall of 2004, the
presidential election,” Bird says. “It wasn’t so much the
tone of the discourse as much as the shear volume that drove me off.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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