> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Seeberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 04:23 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Let's Vote
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Harney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Let's Vote
>
>
> > 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".
> >
> That is a fairly rigid and authoritarian stand to take
> Michael. One of the strengths of this list is that it bends
> but does not break.
*nod* Buildings and Bridges, guys, buildings and bridges.
-j-
