Re: Progress of the new board

On Jun 1, 6:38 pm, Steve Emerson <eme...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <jN_Ul.90892$Tp1.31...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 Bob Lombard <thorsteinnos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





Matthew B. Tepper wrote:
"Norman M. Schwartz" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the
following letters to be typed innews:4a245271$0$31277$607ed4bc@xxxxxx:

I believe most moderated newsgroups involve reading and passing judgement
on the value of each post. E.g., in such a group a message might be turned
down merely because it quoted to much material and added to little new
information. According to my understanding Kirk wishes to ban people which
could be considered as undesireable, and to be done with them.

In the one instance known to me in which he has done so so far, it was on
the
basis of behavior, not identity.  Of course, the person who misbehaved was
the one you probably figured would misbehave, but if he had remained civil
there would have been no reason to ban him.

That is where I disagree. Jeffery was never uncivil according to my
concept of the term,

The thing he was banned for was, I agree, not an incivility.

until he reacted to your incivility, and wasn't after.

As MBT says, he has nothing to do with the matter. He did his best to
confuse matters, but by then, his best was too late.  (Just joking, just
joking.)

He was banned because of prejudice; the prejudice was no doubt
justified, but not the banning.

Whatever the reason, I concur the banning wasn't justified.

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I don't remember in which thread I made this comment, but to
reiterate, I thought the trigger was pulled very quickly, but it was
the moderator's prerogative.

Due process means different things in different settings...
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