----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 6:36 PM Subject: RE: Let's Not Bloody Vote
> At 04:51 PM 5/28/02, Marvin Long wrote: > > >Except the application of these rules is, by common consensus, so > >restricted that except in the most egregious possible case there really > >isn't a rule that can be reliably applied on its own. A rule is "If you > >do A then we'll do B." In practice, Brin-L has, "If you do A then we'll > >all argue about whether or not to do something that may or may not > >resemble B." :-) > > > > So perhaps the goal of the game is not to see how long it takes us to ban > someone from the list for odd posts as to see how much confusion and > contention such posts can generate among the rest of the members of the > list, and how much time and bandwidth we will waste discussing it . . . ? > You forgot about how much fun we have discussing it too. xponent C'mon Baby, You Know You Love It Maru rob
