Dan Minette wrote:
>
> I hit reply on a post from Sonja, and it went to her instead of the list.
> That's the first time that's happend to me. Anyway, here it is.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:29 AM
> Subject: Re: Some things are too good to last
>
> > "Adam C. Lipscomb" wrote:
>
> > > Well, who wrote "Corrupted-World-of-Brin-L Website:"? If listmember
> > > "J" uses a website to slam the list, or threatens to do so, with the
> > > implicit threat that some members of the list may have libelous
> > > information posted about them, are other listmembers not allowed to
> > > say anything about it? How are other listmembers supposed to react to
> > > that? Say nothing?
> >
> > It's an idea that might perhaps work. It hasn't been tried so far and
> > everything else failed. But males in general, usually aren't very good at
> > that. So I forgive you. ;o)
>
> You appear to ignore extemely credible evidence that has been presented on
> Brin-l.detailing how such a threat cannot simply be ignored. The problem
> with such a website with names and libel is that it is extremely visable.
> Let us assume that a curious person who heard about Gautam would type in
> his name. It is probable that it would list Jeroen's page as one of the
> first hits. The same is true with my name.
>
> Gautam said that his employer would require him to quit the list; they
> don't like conterversy. Other folks, who are looking for work, might face
> a situation when someone doing due dilligence might simply types their
> names into a search engine and comes up with that website as a hit. They
> might not even be told why they were not offered a job. Yes, they might
> not, too. But, it is not beyond the pale to expect someone to spend 3
> minutes checking on the public information available on someone looking for
> work.
>
> I do not see how you can ask someone to have ignored your husbands threats
> to people's livelihoods.
I haven't seen any evidence that he's about to put that sort of negative
information up; all he's done this week is indicate displeasure with the
list with his .sig. And I wouldn't have noticed it for awhile if Rob
hadn't brought it to the attention of anyone who missed it. I think
that on the basis of this one .sig file change, some people are
overreacting. If he actually modifies content on his website to reflect
this negativity, that's another matter entirely, but he hasn't done a
damn thing to it this week as far as I can tell. All he has done is
modify his .sig file. Lighten up, guys, would ya?
What I find interesting is that I haven't seen anyone take Jeroen to
task publicly for yelling, which was the most annoying thing to *me*.
The only response to the yelling part of the post, as opposed to the
.sig, was a response to a small part of the content, and it looked
reasonable to me.
Julia
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