--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "Rick Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of authfriend > > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 9:52 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Policy and updated guidelines > > > > > > > > --- In HYPERLINK > > "mailto:FairfieldLife% > 40yahoogroups.com"[email protected], "Rick > > Archer" <rick@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > Point 1, below, includes the following: "Please refrain from > > > personal attacks, insults..." Since a few members habitually > > > ignore this guideline, we're going to try putting some teeth > > > in it. On a trial basis, those who can't refrain from "flaming" > > > (personal attacks) or indulge in gratuitous profanity or sexist, > > > racist, etc. slurs will be banned for a week, 2nd offense 2 > > > weeks, etc. > > > > (FWIW, I won't be "reporting" anybody, publicly or > > privately.) > > > > Snip > > > > These are all good points Judy and I agree with them. > > But you aren't going to consider the warning system > I suggested, even on a trial basis. No surprise > there. > > <snip> > > At t this point, my idea of personal attacks and insults are > > the more blatant, abrasive ones. I have no problem with "you > > need a checking." I do have a problem with calling someone a > > f*ckhead > > I knew this was going to become part of FFL folklore. > > Nobody called anybody a fuckhead just out of the blue. > Edg made a post headed, "Time to vote -- Who's a bigger > liar and fuckhead? John or Edg?" I responded that I > thought Edg was.
To be fair to Edg, it was I who initiated using the word 'fuckhead' after Edg had threatened to sue me for calling him a liar for claiming that Charlie Lutes said that Jesus was going to come to earth in a spaceship [post #147598]. Apparently that made Edg go kind of bananas. I'm not sure what to think after all this fuss.
