Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > Uhh, what the hell? If JDG gets banned from the list, > I'm out the door 30 seconds later. I would guess that > I'm not alone in that, either, but that's only my > opinion. This is unacceptable. Speech codes are an > abomination on campus - on a supposedly free-wheeling > internet discussion list they're worse. > I think it�s not the proper moment to criticize the _executor_ of the Etiquette rules. When these rules are posted [all the time], we all agree to them, either implicitly [with our silence] or explicitly [by making suggestions, such as removing the requirement to add the e-mail to the signature].
And JDG wasn�t banned, not as much as I was, when we violated those rules [and IMHO my breaking of the rules might be worse than his, because I did that on purpose, while he did because his fingers type faster than he thinks :-)] OTOH, if Etiquette-violators like me and JDG [whose opinions are respected, and who few people would really like to make us shut up] aren�t punished in public [and I hated when Jeroen did that to me, as I told him in the chat room] on what basis we can ask the list moderators to punish trolls? Or do you *really* want a brin-l list with unmoderated free speech? Alberto Monteiro
