The funding of the host of ibm-main is totally irrelevant because
postings on this list are not regulated by the university or the
government but by mutual consent of its participants and the list
administrator, with the goal that this list deal with topics that have
at least some relevance with IBM mainframes and not digress into
irrelevancies or pointless argument. People have joined this list
precisely because it has technical and professional relevance, not to
read some of the playground insults that have been traded in recent weeks.
I too have strong feelings on politics and religion, but ibm-main is not
the appropriate place for such arguments, or for unprofessional
insults. Those who flagrantly and consistently violate the conventions
of this list can expect to be and deserve to be criticized by other
participants, have their posts blocked by other participants, and if
they persist, eventually have their right to post to the list revoked.
Joel C. Ewing
On 8/9/23 08:50, Bill Johnson wrote:
I figured you’d miss the point. The IBM list is on a public university hosted
platform. Which means it’s funded by public tax dollars, including mine.
Twitter is a private company that can limit speech that doesn’t fit their
rules. You trumpers are constitutionally illiterate.
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On Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 9:42 AM, Jay Maynard <[email protected]> wrote:
Twitter has no topic. This mailing list does.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 7:55 AM Bill Johnson <
[email protected]> wrote:
First he feeds the troll then tells others to ignore. He can’t even follow
his own suggestion. You obvious trump supporters don’t like when I produce
facts. I’m betting the same folks (over 50 white males mostly) who yell
free speech on Twitter are the ones who don’t like free speech here. And
before you go saying they are 2 different forums, the only difference is my
tax dollars support this one and Twitter is a private company that can
suppress speech.
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On Wednesday, August 9, 2023, 8:17 AM, Allan Staller <
[email protected]> wrote:
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Stop feeding the troll and maybe he'll go away
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