>From: "Reggie Bautista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brin-L) >Subject: Re: Scouted: Commentary: Why Europe Sides Against the Jews / tim >e.com >Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 10:27:00 -0500 > >Jeroen wrote: >>First, it might encourage people to keep their behaviour civilised >when >>they know their misbehaviour will become a matter of public >record. > >Everything said on this list is *already* a matter of public record, at >least everything said since March 1998. >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brin-l/ >You can view messages chronologically or by thread. > >So Jeroen, I have a question about your "bad people" list (I know that's >not >what you call it). Who decides who goes on that list? Will it be simply >your opinion (and if so will it be flagged as such), or will it be the list >owners, or will it be the membership of the list at large? > >Just curious. >
>From the nature of Jeroen's posts, he is, in his capacity as ListOwner/Moderator, once again threatening list members. In our previous episode, he merely threatened various people with banishment. Now he is threatening to create a "Bitch Site" in which our comments will most likely be taken out of context and will definitely be judged according to his own opinions. I don't personally have a problem with people taking my words and spreading them all over the net, so long as they do so in the context in which I posted them. And, Jeroen has a right to do so. They are, after all a matter of *public* record. But I don't think that anyone who's a list moderator or a list owner should do so with the express intent of giving their opinion about what's being posted. I certainly don't think repeatedly threatening list members is appropriate behavior for a listowner/moderator. And editing posts to point out what he terms 'misbehavior' fits a description of 'out of context.' This is wrong. It is my opinion that by a) repeatedly and unapologetically threatening list members (how many times does this make, has anyone kept count?) and b) announcing that he is constructing a web site in which our posts will be taken out of context and attacked according to a self-imposed standard, that Jeroen is overstepping himself as a ListOwner/Moderator. Jon _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
