Doug: I have to say I'm greatly cheered by this action. I found the comment very scary & so disgusting. For me it crossed the line. Thanks, Christine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 10:19 AM Subject: Re: Attn: list-boss: Free speech vs yelling fire in a theatre > > On Jan 12, 2008, at 6:14 AM, Derby Chang wrote: > >> Doug, >> >> I'm sorry, but even for a live and let live kind of guy I am, I >> have my >> limits. Should PDML have a charter against really offensive posts? I >> read a post from a PDMLer who has probably been blocked by most >> members. >> But I have been lazy and have been letting them through. >> >> In response to a rather lovely photo of a pretty child of one of the >> members, said poster wrote a post wrote a fairly ugly intimation of >> violence against this child. I am sure there are real-world laws >> against >> this. I will defend his right to free speech, but not to doing >> violence >> to innocents. >> >> Derby > > When I took over this list, one of the first things I wrote was that > I reserved the right to ban people for crimes against the list, and > there was such a strong negative reaction to it that I pretty much > forgot about it. > > Ben's actions are the reason I wrote that in the first place, and I > think we can all agree that yes, there are limits, even on the PDML. > > Stopping short of banning him entirely, Ben has been put on Moderated > status, which, as you all know, does nothing to endear him to me, > because it means I'll have to sort of pay attention. On the other > hand, people have grown much older waiting for me to respond to list > issues that I deem low priority, so it's entirely possible that Ben > will get tired of waiting for me to approve/discard his messages and > move on to a more suitable forum. > > Ben, you can consider this strikes one and two. Not only do you have > nothing of particular value to contribute to the community, but you > have committed what I consider to be a far more heinous crime: You're > boring. > > Do yourself a favor and keep the profanities to yourself. You won't > come up with anything original, and you certainly won't impress > anyone, least of all me. > > Doug > List God > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
