----- Original Message ----- From: "Marvin Long, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 2:00 PM Subject: RE: This is a troll.
> On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Chad Cooper wrote: > > > Call him mental, call him a troll, call him a kook, call him an attention > > whore. It still adds up to breaking the rules. Perhaps we don't have it down > > on paper, but I feel he has broken the rules we all follow for the most > > part. Call him a recidivist! Gross misconduct of the rules. > > > > I say pull the trigger. Put an end to his farcical antics. He is making us > > look like fools. I think any other list would have done it long ago. > > 1 week. > > If Mark comes back and behaves in a identical manner, ban him for life. > > With regret, I concur, but I'd change "for life" to "for one year." As > much as I'd like to find enough value in Mark's posts to trump the > nuisance factor, as time goes on I find myself unable to do so. > I would like for everyone to repeat after me: "I hope that if I go crazy and become a pain for others to deal with, that I would be treated with dignity." I dont think that banning Mark would be a terrible thing to do. Its possible that it could be beneficial to the list *and* to Mark. I dislike the way Mark is talked about publicly in our forum. There have been speculative accusations and much rancor. Being that this is a public forum, everything that is said, is said -in-Marks-face. It is a kind of rude behavior, that while forgivable, is not typical of this list. Normally, if you have a problem with someone or something someone has said, you confront that someone over the matter in question and some kind of discussion ensues. But in this sutuation, for the most part, people are discussing Mark with everyone but Mark. It makes me wonder. If I suddenly went off the deep end, would I be treated like this? Would Marvin or Julia or Nick be publicly rebuked in the third person in a similar situation? I ask everyone to not take this personally, I just find some recent commentary to be a bit less than polite. xponent Apologies Maru rob
