Erik Reuter wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 06:13:45PM -0500, Dan Minette wrote: > <snipped>
> > However, it is reasonable to request that he respect other people's > > wishes to take flame wars offline. Bring-I was founded by and, > > mostly, peopled by folks who want a civil forum. It is not closed > > minded to want civility. > > Hey, we disagree! One of the most likely ways to earn my respect is to > be tolerant of others when they aren't forcing themselves upon you. A > great way to lose some of my respect is to claim that your notion of > civility is more right than mine, when mine does not force anything upon > you. I am under the impression that when a discussion is finished, ergo when nothing new or relevant is added, one should refrain from adding to the volume of list mail, simply to prove the point that one can. > > His attitude appears to be that folks who do not use technology to > > handle things the way he does have only themselves to blame when they > > read messages that bother them. > > No, why should they have to use technology the way I do? They can use it > in their own way, naturally. But no one has a right to not be bothered > that takes precedence over someone elses right to express themselves, > when it is easily possible to ignore the bother. There is a problem with people not being able to use technology the way some of us do, to filter out certain things, even if they'd very much like to. So not adding unnecesarily (the word here being unnecessarily) to the volume seems to be curtuous without infringing on ones own freedom to express oneself. Exept of course if the idea is to add for the sake of adding. At this point I'm not sure wheather or not that's the idea. Sonja
