Daniel Rocha <danieldi...@gmail.com> wrote: This post, among others, violates the rules of this community. You are > using too much irony and scorn. And I am not the first to note that. > > Where are the moderators of this forum? >
There is only one: Bill Beaty. Perhaps Mary Yugo has gone a little overboard. That is for Bill to decide. Let me suggest that she and others new to this forum should please review these rules: http://www.amasci.com/weird/wvort.html Start where it says: "Vortex-L Rules: 1. $10/yr donation 2. NO SNEERING 3. KEEP MESSAGES UNDER 40K 4. DON'T QUOTE ENTIRE MESSAGES NEEDLESSLY 5. DON'T CC OTHER LIST SERVERS 6. NO SPAMMING 1. If VORTEX-L proves very useful or interesting to you, please consider making a $10US/yr donation to help cover operating expenses. If you cannot afford this, please feel free to participate anyway. If you would like to give more, please do! Direct your check to the moderator, address above. 2. NO SNEERING. Ridicule . . ." Not exactly rules, more like guidelines. See "Pirates of the Caribbean:" *Elizabeth <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0461136/>*: Wait! You have to take me to shore. According to the Code of the Order of the Brethren... *Barbossa <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001691/>*: First, your return to shore was not part of our negotiations nor our agreement so I must do nothing. And secondly, you must be a pirate for the pirate's code to apply and you're not. And thirdly, the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. I do not think think Yugo has attained the status of a buccaneer yet, having but lately joined this motley crew. We're under no obligation to return her to shore, nor maroon her. MY ancestors, I must point out, were reputed to be pirates of the Caribbean. Or at least, smugglers on the Isle of Wight and later Bermuda. Avast ye swabbies! Arrrgggh! - Jed
