----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Posner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:55 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ophee - his views
> G.R. Crona wrote: > >> I must say, that I'm very disillusioned by this move to make what has >> previously been an open forum, a censored one. > > But the forum is no less open and no more censored than it was before. > The only difference is that one more person is now on the list of those > excluded from posting. I don't understand, what kind of legal logic or lingo you refer to for saying this. To me, the only apt word for shutting someone out like this is censorship. >> May I ask, what in the world justifies letting Roman rant on with his >> interminable insults and obsessive, bellicose language when we can't >> stand >> Matanya's equally insulting postings? Why should there be a difference? > > I don't know that anything justifies some of Roman's more personal > jibes. But they are never libelous, Gee, Howard... do you really mean that? since they never purport to be > more than personal opinion. (Indeed, many of Roman's posts are > grounded in the notion that his opinions are valid solely because they > are his, so he never feels the need to substantiate them, or even > explain what he means.) And in what way does this make Matanya's postings any different? If this does not strike you as a significant > difference, keep in mind that you are not the keeper of the list, and > are free to criticize the keeper's choices without having to make them. That's exactly why I'm critisizing them. They are IMO wrong and biased. > And while Roman's insults and bellicose language may be frequent, they > are hardly interminable. They are usually mercifully brief. English is not my first language. Interminable, frequent, endless, call them what you will. He still gets to make them, while Matanya cannot anymore. And that is discriminative and unjust. B.R. G. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.18/86 - Release Date: 31/08/2005 To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
