Dear Tony, Your last line reminded me of an angry boss reluctantly giving a departing employee a character certificate when the boss is quite sure the person will be a liability wherever he goes! I read it to mean: "Okay, you've decided to go ahead with it. Now go and hang yourself anyway!"
Let me assure you that I'm only trying to play the role of glue here, in keeping all interests together. There are others who recognise the value of Goanet (still!) and I'm only responding to Roland Francis' thread, for instance. I get your point. Cyber-bullying is something which has remained undefined and undiscussed on many networks. The issue you raise is a relevant one. At least, it was. But now times have changed. I could surmise that: * We are all almost 25 years older, so are raging testosterone levels are not as out of control as these once were. * There are many other networks in cyberspace (especially on Facebook and WhatsApp now), So if you want to see real wild (communal, BJP-versus-Congress-ism in its worst forms), I would say the 'better' examples are elsewhere. Goanet itself has come a full circle. At one stage we were faulted for 'censoring' (remembering our friend JC here) posts. At least a couple of friends quit because we were then "allowing any rubbish to go through" or words to that effect. Anyway, all that is in the past. Questions like you raise need to be addressed, I agree. There's a fine line between free speech and abuse. Also, the gap between avoiding cyber-bullying and playing censor is very narrow.... You are doing a fine job with Goanet @ Facebook, which already has 10,000 readers. (For those doubting Thomases who question our readership figures otherwise, go there and give it a check-out: https://www.facebook.com/groups/goanet/ FN [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality4&;> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality4&;> On 24 May 2018 at 13:46, Tony de Sa <[email protected]> wrote: > It is, indeed, creditable that Frederick Noronha is making an attempt to > breathe new life into Goa's flagship mailing list, Goanet. I for one have > been absent from this forum for some years now, though I am an Admin on the > Goanet FB page. > > My enforced absence from Goanet was because there was a set of posters, who > if they disagreed with what you wrote would literally hound you with > mails. If you didn't reply because of other pressing matters, your inbox > would be flooded with demands to send in a reply. This hounding got so bad > at one time, that I preferred to take sanyas from Goanet. While at times, > this attitude on pouncing on a poster made life for the readers > interesting, it wasn't easy for the one at the receiving end, I'm sure. > Fortunately, all that is behind us now as some of these posters are no > longer on this forum, some for reasons that ere beyond their control ;-) > > This was the reason why many people who would have otherwise posted > interesting stuff on Goanet simply quit the forum rather than being > harrangued. > > While I have not been active on this forum, I've been a lurker and have > been reading the posts. I feel that Gabe Menezes and Roland Francis have > kept the ship float with their interesting posts. > > I wish Frederick all the very best in his efforts to revive Goanet. > > Best wishes, > Tony > > -- > > Regards, > > Tony de Sa > ♦Technical Editor ♦ Graphics ♦ IT Stuff > > ♦ DTP > > [image: Facebook icon] <https://www.facebook.com/tdesa2> [image: > Image result for twitter logo] <https://twitter.com/t0t0> > -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ FN* फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या * فريدريك نورونيا +91-9822122436 _/ RADIO GOANA: https://archive.org/details/@fredericknoronha _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/
