At 17:52 30-04-2002 -0400, Jon Gabriel wrote: >He is once again threatening list members in an effort to silence them.
That is in fact partially (PARTIALLY) true. I am not threatening anyone and I am not trying to silence people completely. What I am trying to accomplish here is getting people to refrain from personal attacks, insults and other such misbehaviour every time I refuse to say "you are right and I am wrong". >What he is doing negatively impacts the entire list, and is not >appropriate behavior for someone who maintains powers over the entire list. Ignoring for the moment the fact that my being a co-listowner has nothing to do with it -- would you consider the impact on the list of the endless attacks against me to be something other than negative? Would you consider such attacks to be always inappropriate, or would that depend on who is doing the attacking? Do you think *your* posts on this subject are actually having a *positive* impact on this list? And no, those are NOT rhetorical questions. >You may disagree with me, but I think he should either stop threatening us >or step down. He shouldn't be able to have authority over list members >and continue to threaten them. You are probably not going to answer this, but exactly how would such a site be threatening? Do you stand to lose something because of it? Are you going to lose your job when your boss finds out you are on that list? Is your wife going to file for divorce because of it? Are your friends going to turn their backs on you because of it? And how exactly is such a site related to me being a listowner? >By all means, I'm not trying to silence him myself: let him become a list >member without the power to banish people and he can threaten us all he >wants. Heck, if he steps down, IMO, he can even put his "bitch site" >website up and do whatever he wants with it. So, what has my being a co-listowner have to do with it? If your boss finds out you are on that list and starts thinking about firing you, will it make any difference to him whether or not I am a co-listowner? Will your wife take that into account when she is going to decide whether or not to file for divorce? Are your friends going to turn their back on you if I am a co-listowner but not if I am not a co-listowner? Jeroen _________________________________________________________________________ Wonderful World of Brin-L Website: http://www.Brin-L.com Tom's Photo Gallery: http://tom.vanbaardwijk.com
