Chip's offlist fight with listadmin ended well for all concerned,
IMHO, I'm glad Chip agrees. Definitely offlist stuff, the list wasn't
deprived of anything. Raking up old coals isn't always a good idea,
and this would just have been a distraction or worse.
I think there's a lot of offlisting
I like the way this list works -- a few of my other sustainability
lists it's very easy to get off-topic (try discussing the political
ramifications or drivers behind a sustainbility issue...) and then the
moderator steps in and tells you to take it elsewhere. Here it seems
like there is no
Hello Kim
Greetings,
I do believe that many people on this list don't read real well.
I think you're relying on it. No doubt a new subject-title and
dumping all the evidence helps. The ones who disagree with you read
quite well though. The un-keyhole view is of Kim trying to backpedal
her way
I just wanted to chime in here.Keith wrote: "It reached a stage here where the list would not have survived unless we'd formulated the rules, which were already there, we didn't just make them up."It's alsotoo commonto see a reactionary restriction of _expression_, screening all posts
Rudtard Kipling is rolling is his grave but William Easterly probably
approves of pretty much everything you've said.
Michael Redler wrote:
I just wanted to chime in here.
Keith wrote:
It reached a stage here where the list would not have
survived unless we'd formulated the rules,
Michael Redler wrote:
I just wanted to chime in here.
Keith wrote:
It reached a stage here where the list would not have
survived unless we'd formulated the rules, which were already there,
we didn't just make them up.
It's also too common to see a reactionary
Chip wrote: "I had a post 'screened' a few months back, which led to a lively off-list debate..."If all posts on that thread were screened, I disagree with your assessment. However, I agree with subsequent screening/deleting after the list members had a chance to read and dissent to the
I hope that too much restriction does not take place because I
learn a lot from reading reactions to each other's statements. It
helps me clarify my own thinking by watching people try to help
others clarify and defend their positions. I want to understand
why people feel they way they do.
I cann't help I have to react. To my 'human' feeling, somne strange
thinking below by Curtis.
1) statement: the UN is using our el-presidante' for it's own purposes.??
As I understand it so far the UN NEVER said the US of A can NOT attack
Iraq. The 'privalege' of starting a war is