Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: FFL Guidelines

2013-11-17 Thread Richard J. Williams
Guidelines File - Updated 8/25/2012 1) Posts by users of the site are not edited or scrutinized before appearing online. 2) The forum moderators do not purport to vouch for the authenticity or veracity of any statements within the forum. 3) All parties who feel aggrieved by any statements withi

[FairfieldLife] RE: FFL Guidelines

2013-11-17 Thread punditster
Thanks Rick, for reminding us that FFL has guidelines. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote: I just amended several points: Guidelines File 11/18/07 Fairfield Life used to average 75-150 posts a day - 300+ on peak days - and the guidelines included steps on how to deal with t

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-16 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anymore. But Judy sort of clarified it - alt.med was > always "designed" as a confrontational site Not "designed," no. It was intended as a forum where TMers could share movement news and gossip-- very m

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-16 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As I said in a newsgroup, I always win an argument, though sometimes > I start out on the wrong side... Yea, you always have the last word, if that's what you mean. Definately, you have the last word. lurk ---

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-16 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And what does that say about the collective internal serenity of the > people here that they can be "conquered" by a few objectionable types > who can be filtered or skipped? > > lurk What does it say about a com

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 9/15/05 7:58 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> That's fine Jim, but do you know the "tenor" of alt.

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on 9/15/05 4:57 PM, lurkernomore20002000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > Richard Williams declared about a week ago, that > > FFL was going to be "conquered", but the alt.med attitude. > > Was that wishful thinking

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I'm with Patrick. Like so much in our society, no one is putting a > > gun, or carrot, to your head to participa

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > I agree. I don't think anyone has committed banable offenses. Barry has > already apologized and promised to clean up his act. I hope Judy will do the > same. She needn't even apologize. Just, if possible, stop d

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cliff unsubscribed because of friction with Judy and someone else > emailed me > > Years ago I quit AMT because of the endless nit

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread shempmcgurk
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cliff unsubscribed because of friction with Judy and someone else > emailed me > > Years ago I quit AMT because of the endless nit

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 9/15/05 7:58 PM, authfriend at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> That's fine Jim, but do you know the "tenor" of alt.med. It is not >> very pleasant. From my limited lurking, it seemed 80% vitriholic >> (

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's fine Jim, but do you know the "tenor" of alt.med. It is not > very pleasant. From my limited lurking, it seemed 80% vitriholic > (?). There did not seem to much interesting discourse, just pretty

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That would be a big mistake IMO. We should include everyone, after all > integration is the very spirit of Unity Consciousness, no? > > IMO the biggest issue with this mailing list--as opposed to other mailing > lists--is tha

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "lurkernomore20002000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > I'm with Patrick. Like so much in our society, no one is putting a > > gun, or carrot, to your head to partici

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Vaj
On 9/15/05 7:25 PM, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/ That's just it Judy. I don't want to live in a world of anonymity and "virtual relationships". I want to have the freedom to meet other *real* people, not merely virtual identities. Those wh

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 9/15/05 6:51 PM, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But a lot of the posters here already use > > pseudonyms (including yourself). This > > shouldn't be an obstacle. > > If we lived in a world of honest

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Vaj
On 9/15/05 6:51 PM, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But a lot of the posters here already use > pseudonyms (including yourself). This > shouldn't be an obstacle. If we lived in a world of honest people, but you know as well as I do that there are people who love to "out" others. Yo

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IMO the biggest issue with this mailing list--as opposed to other > mailing lists--is that it is not private. This definitely affects > certain professionals and people in general who simply won't post. > Privacy is the norm

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 9/15/05 5:15 PM, Vaj at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > That would be a big mistake IMO. We should include everyone, after all > integration is the very spirit of Unity Consciousness, no? > > IMO the biggest issue with this mailing list--as opposed to other mailing > lists--is that it is not privat

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Vaj
That would be a big mistake IMO. We should include everyone, after all integration is the very spirit of Unity Consciousness, no? IMO the biggest issue with this mailing list--as opposed to other mailing lists--is that it is not private. This definitely affects certain professionals and people in

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 9/15/05 4:57 PM, lurkernomore20002000 at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Richard Williams declared about a week ago, that > FFL was going to be "conquered", but the alt.med attitude. Was that wishful thinking on his part? I think he's wrong. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "David Fiske" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Naaah don't do that Rick. Judy has many commendable qualities. I too > have seen her fight but she enjoys a fight and if you don't, back > off; or ignore her forays into bellicosity. > We are what we are. If you en

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread lurkernomore20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm with Patrick. Like so much in our society, no one is putting a > gun, or carrot, to your head to participate. If you don't like it, > use it as an exercise in self restraint not to react. Hooray for > Judy

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 9/15/05 4:16 PM, David Fiske at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Remember how Richard Kilmer and > I went at each other, twice, and are still friends. How is old Richard doing? I was thinking about him the other day. Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get f

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread David Fiske
Naaah don't do that Rick. Judy has many commendable qualities. I too have seen her fight but she enjoys a fight and if you don't, back off; or ignore her forays into bellicosity. We are what we are. If you enter into nit picking with her be warned she is good at it, probably part of her job trai

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread jim_flanegin
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Cliff unsubscribed because of friction wi

Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Rick Archer
on 9/15/05 3:57 PM, Patrick Gillam at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Cliff unsubscribed because of friction with Judy and someone el

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread Patrick Gillam
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, johnlasher20002000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cliff unsubscribed because of friction with Judy and someone else > emailed me > > Years ago I quit AMT because of the endless nit

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread johnlasher20002000
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cliff unsubscribed because of friction with Judy and someone else emailed me Years ago I quit AMT because of the endless nit picking between Judy and everyone else. She seems to be following the same pattern here. I hav

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-15 Thread off_world_beings
<<< I gotta think that its genuine sexism that makes people so upset with Judy that they can't stand reading her posts. >>> I totally agree. Well said. OffWorld Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo!

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread sparaig
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You of course are welcome to return to AMT. > > Things here were much friendlier, a nice community tone generally > prevailed, prior to the AMT group coming on board. > Of course they were. It's only the AMT newcome

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread akasha_108
FFL Guidelines # 1 This group has long maintained a thoughtful and considerate tone. Please refrain from personal attacks, insults and excessive venting. "Speak the truth that is sweet" is a worthy aspiration. If angry, take some time to gain composure before writing or pushing the send button. Pl

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread anonymousff
You of course are welcome to return to AMT. Things here were much friendlier, a nice community tone generally prevailed, prior to the AMT group coming on board. --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frankly, given that some here use profanity, and express

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines - 'Man, Woman, Profanity, Power & Respect'

2005-09-14 Thread Robert Gimbel
Yes, in many spiritual traditions, woman are supposed to "keep their place"; And that attitude has been so extreme, in some cultures; Past and present; Those women were burned alive in public; Women were stoned to death in Ancient Judah; Women are routinely abused in the Islamic Nations; On and

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread authfriend
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frankly, given that some here use profanity, and express extremely > bigotted viewpoints without prompting people to leave or at least > tell the moderator that they are leaving, I gotta think that its > genuine sexism

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread sparaig
Frankly, given that some here use profanity, and express extremely bigotted viewpoints without prompting people to leave or at least tell the moderator that they are leaving, I gotta think that its genuine sexism that makes people so upset with Judy that they can't stand reading her posts. Fema

[FairfieldLife] Re: FFL Guidelines

2005-09-14 Thread off_world_beings
I second that emotion! (if only to stop that bastard OffWorld from being so rude ! ) No seriously..I CRAVE a group that is respectful to one and all, but I don't think such a thing exists. OffWorld --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We all need