He's not serious, right?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Buck" <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote:
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>
> They have drowned and driven off what originally had been a substantial
> community of writers about FFL. I do not feel that FFL should be maintained
> for these few people to use as their hate-full blog to just write their
> personal animosities towards each other. It is just abusive all the way
> around and has wrecked the breadth of a substantial salon that you Rick had
> hoped for all along with FFL. These people have destroyed the readership of
> FFL. There were long times that FFL was substantial and important to the
> spiritual well-being of Fairfield life. Rick it would be better now that you
> turn off the posting to FFL and now just let the archive stand as the
> important historical resource that it has become for the scholarly. But shut
> the posting-list down now and let these people find some other place to bait
> each other.
>
> >
> > Look down at the post list and see that very few are actually related to FF
> > or FFL. Most have neither been to Fairfield in modern times nor some of
> > the worst offenders have nothing to do with meditating or Fairfield.
> > Several come here to FFL and just flood up the list who don't even meditate
> > as if they have rights and are part of a community here. These angry and
> > childish have succeeded in flooding out most all writers of merit and most
> > any writing that was communally relevant. Yep, give the FFL list a rest as
> > a place to post. Time to shut it off and re-group if you won't moderate it
> > and these people will not moderate themselves. Hardly anyone is reading it
> > anymore other than the few who post only to antagonize one-another. Put an
> > end to it one way or another.
> >
> > >
> > > We should not have to indulge the wicked in their abusive name-calling ad
> > > hominem behavior here. Stop enabling it. If these people clearly have
> > > no personal restraint and it is not going to be moderated by themselves
> > > then force upon them mailing their personal vendettas off-list as a stop
> > > to subjecting the public to their abuse of the community and FFL. Yes,
> > > consider we give it all a break and suspend everyone from posting on FFL.
> > > Just let the archive stand for what it is.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > A few people have hijacked what could have been so good with their
> > > > exhibited bad social behavior and ill consideration of the group. Good
> > > > content drives readership. Relevant content is what drives readership.
> > > > You know that from your professional life. These few people have
> > > > driven FFL to hell. They have effectively seized the forum and driven
> > > > all the good writers and the FFL audience away. It is time to do away
> > > > their low form of argument here on FFL, to put an end to the ad
> > > > hominem. Push to have the personal invective taken off the list. It
> > > > is time to recapture FFL and take it back for the civil, high-minded
> > > > and good people of the larger community.
> > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Dear Rick, please act soon to save the historic archive that is FFL
> > > > > before Yahoo moves to enforce its new anti-abuse guidelines and
> > > > > closes the pages of the group entirely.
> > > > > Sincerely,
> > > > > -Buck
> > > > >
> > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, FFL PostCount <ffl.postcount@>
> > > > > wrote:
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> > > > > > Start Date (UTC): 08/17/13 00:00:00
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