re nhl letter quite long in article apr ramsey cs laurentian ca maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca roger maynard writes in apr sol ctr columbia edu phoenix startide ctr columbia edu ali lemer writes i m not even going to bother to reply to your ranting post the letter is addressed to gary bettman not you he can reply as he wishes not so your post is addressed to all i quote as she said the letter is addressed to bettman the post which though having pretty much the same content is an entirely different entity was addressed to all when she puts the letter in the mail i doubt it will say to all i figure she wanted to let people here see what was in it since it is a topic that interests a lot of folks here that s an entirely different purpose than sending the letter to bettman unfortunately and i guess i let you know didn t i you do not represent a large body of hockey fans by any standard you care to use to define large people constitutes nothing more than a tiny group of fanatics and is in no way representative of a large body of hockey fans on the internet let alone of one of the largest computer networks in the world the largest computer networks in the world phrase is a definition of the internet not a group as a whole that she claims to represent as for the business of whether or not it is large it is large compared to say the number of folks on r s h who are sending a letter to thank him for changing the names at least to this point and just for my own curiosity i thought i d look up the official definition of large in the dictionary it reads large having more than usual power capacity or scope exceeding most other things of like kind in quantity or size now i have no idea how many letters bettman may have gotten on the issue or how many people may have signed them people may be up there thereby validating definition i would also wager that the geographical range of signatures is quite large which would give it a large scope he might be impressed by the size of the list of names why would he be impressed with this unless it were large i am of course assuming that you actually agree with what you are writing and are not simply trying to be a pain about the whole issue to hear yourself speak i personally don t know whether or not i agree with the letter i have very mixed emotions about it i like the names as they are and don t think they make it that difficult to learn the game but there might be a shred of validity to the change paul w francisco in the shadow an angel cries catcher netcom com front line assembly
