The subject matter of borders, whether we discuss three-way or four
way meetings, or circles in the sand or sea or whatever, in the
context of either geography or politics is so esoteric and small,
suggesting a split in order to maintain comprehension of the whole by
categorizing its parts somehow admits to a lack or limit of mental
capacity. It's as though too much breadth damages our attention spans
or attacks our patience to the point where pressures to divide in
order to manage surface. If a subject isn't of interest, don't open
the message. We can keep many threads going at one time.

Divided, we fall.

That's not a personal attack on anyone's mental faculties, but an
expression of frustration as to the nature of humanity to not
recognize when a good thing is going. Why do we take exemplary
elements of our society that brings diverse people together, expose us
to aspects of a subject we may never have thought about and break them
up? Why do we drag exceptionally successful things down to mediocrity
through division?

I saw this happen with the usenet group rec.collecting.stamps. Buy
and sell offers got to be too much for some who hated capitalism on
the net out of principle, so now, we've got
rec.collecting.stamps.discuss, rec.collecting.stamps.postalhistory,
rec.collecting.stamps.commerce or something like that. No one group
has much of a following anymore, because too many people have no
broadband access, and it takes them too long and is too costly to
access all three.... so they stay away. A good thing was ruined.

Learn from history.

Len Nadybal