[ADMIN] Call for administrative action

[Nick Arnett]

I've been extraordinarily busy the last few weeks and brin-l has had to 
take a back seat to a lot of it.  But I have done my best over the last 
few days to read at least some, if not a majority, of the threads in 
which people have become obnoxious, abusive, etc., leading to complaints 
and requests for administrative action.

From my point of view, people indeed have posted messages that fall 
outside of our guidelines.  Others have responded with messages to Julia 
and me, saying "do something."

Here's the administrative action that I'll propose -- feel free to offer 
your own, of course.  Let's do a self-audit.  If you found recent 
postings to be outside the guidelines, please send an off-list e-mail to 
the person who posted the message, saying so.  And I urge you to say 
nothing more -- just copy the message and write that you believe it was 
outside of the guidelines, period.

I'm not calling for for anyone to write criticism.  I'm asking for you 
to offer your point of view about whether the messages fit the 
guidelines -- not about what the messages said, not about the authors, 
not about the guidelines.

I'm not suggesting that this will put this issue to rest, but I think 
it's a good first response to list-unrest.

Nick

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Nick Arnett
Director, Business Intelligence Services
LiveWorld Inc.
Phone/fax: (408) 551-0427
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