On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Kevin Cully wrote:
> Freedom. There's nothing more important.
A bit hyperbolic, but yes, I agree. But freedom only exists in the
context of a society. Because we as a society have laws that regulate what
people can and cannot do, does that mean that our freedom is gone? Or are these
laws what enables us to be free?
I reluctantly set up ProFoxTech a few years ago because several people
made the case that they saw this list as a valuable technical resource, but
were not able to subscribe because some of the posts were not appropriate for
their work environment. In my mind, that amounted to the actions of a few
suppressing the rights of the rest. So the tech-only version of this list was
created; note that it is not a separate list, but a filtered subset. Anyone who
wants to see all list postings is perfectly free to do so.
But this filtering required some additional effort to achieve. It would
require that the list be moderated in some fashion to separate the technical
stuff from the rest of the posts. Since I didn't want to spend my days
reviewing posts, I chose to make the list self-moderated: post what you like,
but it's up to you to indicate when you are straying outside of technical areas
by adding the [OT] tag to the subject. By and large this system has worked
wonderfully, even though some people are a bit forgetful from time to time
about this.
Please also note that Pete is still perfectly free to post OT stuff.
Nothing has changed in that regard. The only thing that's changed is that for
the next two weeks none of his posts will be sent to the ProFoxTech subscribers.
-- Ed Leafe
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