Sadly, no, Nick, we haven't actually had our first Brin-L miracle. The
above was, I believe, written by Eric - I'm quite certain it wasn't me :-)
Actually my argument is maybe more subtle than I made it out to be in my
initial response to the above post. I definitely prefer an initial,
private, warning to a public statement as was first made in this case. So
I guess I do agree with you, Nick, even though you didn't know that at the
time you thought we were in agreement :-) But in this _particular_ case I
think it was actually a good thing that it was made in public, because what
happened was an attempt at censorship, not the maintenance of civility.
Thus the public nature of the warning allowed the listmembers to see what
happened and judge it - and so far _every single person who has posted_
save Jeroen (who caused the threat to be issued) has felt that what
happened was inappropriate. So I agree with you in general but feel that
in this specific case having what happened occur in the sunlight was a very
valuable thing.
Oh come on; can't we have our miracle. You and Nick sort of agree isn't that enough? George and Tom hugged; you and Nick agree; Nirvana is near
