At 02:57 PM 6/17/99 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have to agree with John here.
>>
>> Joop Teernstra wrote:
>> > >John and all,
>> > >
>> > >First of all, I am very sorry to see you go, especially because you are
>> > basing your departure on wrong conclusions.
>> > >I am not IDNO's chair, I'm just the guy who has called IDNO into life and
>> > is trying to nurse it to a proper democratic existence.
>> > >It is not yet democratic, because it has no officers yet of any sort to
>> > share the responsibility of keeping it alive. When I am faced
>> > with treason,
>> > I have to act on my own.
>>
>> This is the fundamental problem here. One can not build a democratic
>> organization by defining dissent as "treason" and arguing that its
>> suppression is justified on that basis.
I agree with Dan. While I certainly understand Joops feelings (list owners
tend to get very posessive about their lists, and if you were, say, running
a list about gardening and somebody advocated paving gardens over, what do
you do ? Is that editorial control or censorship ?) I think in this
case it's better to err on the side of a perceived wrong if only for
appearance sake.
Look at it this way, if Kevin can kill the IDNO, it wasn't worth saving
in the first place.
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