I fully understand and respect you have the role of moderating this list and I think that’s an important role. This doesn’t mean I have to agree or disagree with any particular instance of behaviour or its moderation. As I’ve mentioned, I hope I have the right to agree or disagree without using any remotely offensive language myself.
I agreed with his sentiment that the word used wasn’t really a swear word (of course that’s a fairly muddy subject in itself). I didn’t repeat this behaviour myself, I just agreed with sentiment expressed on this specific case (about the use in the original message). This doesn’t mean I would use that particular word or similar words myself on this list as I don’t have a use for them in the context of what we discuss here, hence you won’t find any of my messages containing any word that can be remotely seen as offensive (as far as I can see). I didn’t mean anything more or less with my very short reply (spending too much time during my workday on this as it is at this point). Cheers, Erik Ps: on a less serious note, there is an interesting irony here, looking at the server name in the ‘to' field in every single mail on this list ;). > On 23 Jul 2020, at 14:05, John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 4:40 AM Erik van der Tier <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Ok. Last message from me on this subject. I’m pretty sure you nor anybody > else on this list has been able tp spot me using any foul language (assuming > ‘+1’ doesn’t count as foul). I was reacting to Brian’s message, who’s > sentiment I agree with. > > Well... do you agree with immediately repeating the behavior that I just > reminded everyone was not allowed? > > I'm trying to perform my role of moderating the list. > > I need yours and everyone's help to do that. > > At the moment I feel I'm getting the exact opposite. > > -- John.
