Michael Harney wrote:
>
> Abstain.
>
> I refuse to vote on this issue before an official policy is established. I
> thought the list guidelines were the official policy, but I can see from the
> current discussion that they are not. We cannot just chose to kick someone
> out because we find them annoying. If his posts had not included obscene
> and vulgar material, I would be voting "NO" right now, but I think that we
> need to establish some community rules and if *after* the policy is
> established, a member violates it, then issue a warning, then if done again,
> suspend their posting privilages for a while (no vote required, the
> judgement of whether the person is in violation of rules can be made by the
> listowners). There has to be an official policy that is applied universally
> and fairly, not just "This person annoys me, let's vote him of the island...
> I mean list".
I agree with Michael on this. If Mark has not been informed that
posting X to the list may result in suspension of his posting
priviledges, he should not be suspended because he's posted X.
As far as I know, the *only* information Mark has been given as to what
action may result in suspension fo posting priviledges is his having
been informed that excessively long messages may result in such
suspension. (This was done off-list.) And since he replied to that,
there have been no posts over 10K from him.
At this point, I do not agree that Mark should be prevented from
posting, for the reasons given above. There is no concensus at this
time.
And that's all I'm going to say on this topic until at *least* sometime
this evening. (I have shopping to do, trash from 3 closets to deal
with, dinner to make, and all this with a 12-month-old that got a shot
this morning, hence he's not as happy as usual today....)
Julia
