Re: [ga] Message from the Chair - List Rules

[Ellen Rony <erony@marin.k12.ca.us>]

>On Fri, Feb 04, 2000, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
>>
>> As you well know, the issue is not posting rights, it what feed people
>> get as a matter of default.  Arranging posting addresses is a trivial
>> computing matter.

>On Fri, Feb 04, 2000, Kent Crispin wrote:
>>
>
>Sorry -- I misunderstood your point.  I understand now -- you want it to
>be the case that people who aspire to be disruptive assholes don't have
>to do anything, but that those who prefer politeness and decorum must do
>something special.  Is that correct?


What a gross distortion of the point.

I prefer *not* to be treated like a child who cannot separate wheat from
the chaff.

I prefer *not* to have someone else's opinion of what constitutes offending
content imposed upon me for the purposes of a GA list.

I prefer *not* to have a general and open list run through an unseen filter
in the means of a sergeant-at-arms.

I prefer *not* to accept the window dressing of GA openness through a
proposal that establishes a read-only list for everything over the transom
but allows interaction only on a selected portion that has survived the
process of screening.

Accordingly, my next message will be to unsubscribe until such time as
reason is restored to the DNSO GA and this list is open without filters as
to content.

While i do, indeed, filter out the messages of those who have brought this
issue to the fore and do not welcome their time-wasting behavior, I believe
that right   should rest with each of us as individuals.  When some fair
voting process is in place to determine whether this list should be
structured as has been decreed, it will be interesting to examine whether
the interim participation proved to be substantively more productive so as
to justify such draconion measures.



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