Re: Progress of the new board

Steve Emerson wrote:
In article <jN_Ul.90892$Tp1.31012@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bob Lombard <thorsteinnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Matthew B. Tepper wrote:
"Norman M. Schwartz" <nmsz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> appears to have caused the
following letters to be typed in
news: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.

SE.

The whole purpose of starting the Yahoo group was to exclude Powell. He
would have banned from it sooner or later for good cause. I think starting
more than some number of OT threads might be good reason to ban someone from
a moderated group.


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