Dear TruthTalk members, I feel it prudent to clarify many misunderstandings. Please bear with me while I make a few posts regarding this subject of the TruthTalk moderator. If you are new on the list, please try to overlook our dirty laundry.
Dean wrote: > I am no longer Moderator of Truth talk. > David requested that I step down-so > I have done so. This is not true. I never asked Dean to step down. I asked to talk with him about it. I asked to talk with him about either stepping down or changing his approach and methods of communicating. I tried to call him on the phone and left a voice message for him to return my call, and I sent him a short e-mail. Here is the e-mail: ===================== ----- Original Message ----- From: David Miller To: Dean Moore Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 12:08 PM Subject: TruthTalk Carroll, we need to talk. The list is not going well at all. I would like to talk with you about either stepping down from being moderator or changing your approach and methods of communicating. David Miller. 352-564-1512 ===================== I never received a return phone call, nor an email attempt to communicate. Dean has simply stepped down and has now misrepresented me in saying that I asked him to step down. My concern is communication. Carroll has written to me in glowing terms about the list and where it is headed. I have had a number of concerns about where the list was heading and I desired only to talk with him about it. I am concerned when people are suspended from the list and do not have a clear understanding why it was done. I am very concerned when reconciliation is not the goal of a disciplinary action like suspension. I am concerned when I see list rules being changed by one person without discussion, rules that have been in place for many years. I am concerned when there seems to be no comprehension of our no ad hominem list rule and public comments that our list policy or rule does not work. The reason I mentioned Dean's stepping down from being moderator was to communicate to him the severity of the problems that I perceive. He has always written to me in very glowing terms about the list, thinking that the list was much better and doing much better. I see it differently. From my perspective, Dean has been taking a sectarian approach to the list, attempting to make it an exclusively Christian list and one that did not include Christians who wore a different banner from that of the moderator. He apparently believes this is a righteous attitude, but I perceive it to be a carnal one and spiritually immature. Clearly, we needed to talk and work things out. I'm not sure right now what the future of TruthTalk will be. I certainly do not believe that I have the time to devote to it. For now, I will be the moderator of the list until someone else volunteers. However, expect that the list will be sometimes unmoderated. I only have a certain amount of time and the volume of the list makes it difficult for me to keep up with all the reading. David Miller List Administrator ---------- "Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer every man." (Colossians 4:6) http://www.InnGlory.org If you do not want to receive posts from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you will be unsubscribed. If you have a friend who wants to join, tell him to send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and he will be subscribed.
