Mark Smith wrote: "You seem to suggest that RR is both too neglectful of the list and, at the same time, too strict in it's moderation of same."
WELL: Over the last while the use-list has looked rather like a playroom where the 'children' (and this should not be taken as offensive) have got on with their 'thing' unobstructed by adults; no ground rules, nothing except the modus operandi that the children have negotiated between themselves. As some of the children began to have doubts about the way things were progressing one of them asked Mummy for an opinion. Mummy then came down on the children in a way that would seem to indicate that their self-negotiated rules had no value at all as Mummy (in consultation with Daddy and various Uncles and Aunties) set the rules without paying heed to the wants of the children. What would be the end-result in that playroom? Well, once the 'hormones of adolescence' went to work there would be an outbreak of "spotty teenagerism" with the spottiest leaving home and setting up home in tree-houses and suchlike - yet still desperate for parental approval. With children (even if with no-one else) inconsistency breeds distrust; and children who spot inconsistency in parental behaviour get "all mixed up". Just at present, I am "all mixed up": however, my tree-house is quite roomy and you are welcome to join me there any time you like! http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RRgraphix/ sincerely, Richmond Mathewson __________________________________________________ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html _______________________________________ --------------------------------------------------------------- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
