[EM] FWD - DELETE, DELETE, DELETE, Mike!!

[Instant Runoff Voting supporter]

The following post is fitting for this list, or at least for MikeO.

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Date:         Sun, 19 Nov 2000 19:37:47 -0800
From: Misha  [address omitted to prevent hate mail from Mike}
Subject:      Re: Where Do We Draw The Line?
To: SANET[censored]

Howdy, all--

The Department of Keyboard Technology offers an answer as to where to
draw the line:

YOUR DELETE KEY.

Those of you who don't like what any particular person on this list
has to say, just hit the delete key when you see their messages. And
stop filling all our in-baskets with umbage-taken missives.

USE YOUR DELETE KEY.

This is a forum. If you don't like what any particular individual has
to say, delete their messages or filter them to the trash. Among the
800 or so subscribers to SANET, there may be people who are perfectly
glad to read the words of someone you disagree with--and intolerance
and attacks are likely to lead only to self-censorship of those
lurkers, or indeed anyone who disagrees with whoever is complaining
the loudest.

USE YOUR DELETE KEY.

Can we step away from the stick-poking and posturing, and, if someone
has something to share, they can do so, and let other people decide
whether they want to read it?

USE YOUR DELETE KEY.

Can we drop this issue of calling in the list administrator to play
Discourse Cop? Andy's got about a million better things to be doing
with his time and attention.

USE YOUR DELETE KEY.

And can we for the love of lefse vent our crankiness at the change of
seasons elsewhere? As Mike Miller observed, this seems to happen
every November on SANET. Each year. With a new set of people finding
something over which to poke another subscriber with sticks.

We've all got delete keys. If something isn't worth discussing, the
topic will--or should be allowed to--peter out.


peace
mish