RE: [ga] Comments from Pawlo

["John B. Reynolds" <john@reynolds.chicago.il.us>]

William X. Walsh wrote:
> On 19-Jan-2000 John B. Reynolds wrote:
> >
> >
> > William X. Walsh wrote:
> >>
> >> Your suggestions just lead to more endless wrangling and the
> >> ability of those
> >> whose SOLE goal in being here is to be disruptive to continue to
> >> tie this group
> >> up in notes.   With the exception of the spelling correction
> >> comment, I would
> >> object to any of these changes.
> >>
> >
> > It is not the noisemakers who are tying this group in "notes",
> but rather
> > the attempt to suppress them, which (predictably) has generated far more
> > disruption than they could ever hope to create on their own.
> >
> > The way to combat the noisemakers is to give them the amount of
> attention
> > they deserve, which is none.  Proposing rules to deal with them
> is no better
> > than responding to them - it merely feeds their egos.
>
> When the rules are in place, the noisemakers will be silenced.
> And then there
> will be no noise relating to them.
>

That's one possibility.  Another more likely scenario is that they will find
ways to circumvent the rules and/or use them to create further disruption.