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- From: jbw@bigbird.bu.edu (Joe Wells)
- Newsgroups: alt.config
- Subject: Re: No, don't
- Message-ID: <JBW.93Jan25074618@bigbird.bu.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 12:46:18 GMT
- References: <2B55DEEF.1444@ics.uci.edu> <1993Jan14.232059.6396@netcom.com>
- <JBW.93Jan20201737@bigbird.bu.edu> <2240@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- In-reply-to: tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu's message of 21 Jan 93 02:59:04 GMT
-
- In article <2240@blue.cis.pitt.edu> tjw@vms.cis.pitt.edu writes:
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- This is all much ado about absolutely nothing. Jonathan should never have
- blown this up into such a big deal.
-
- Jonathan Kamens did not "blow this up into such a big deal". Whiny,
- petulant twits like Jef Poskanzer "blew this up into such a big deal".
-
- He got himself baited into this flame war.
-
- Jonathan is hardly involved in the flames.
-
- This is what happened to him in AFU as well. He must learn to say no.
-
- Jon does say "no", he just says it too politely for the twits to understand.
-
- The archiving of flame wars does concern me somewhat as well.
-
- I was the one that made available the relevant archives of the
- faq-maintainers mailing list, not Jon.
-
- A moderator of a group gets to be just that: The moderator. If one doesn't
- like what the moderator posts, they have several choices:
-
- A) Don't read the group,
- B) Make a group of their own (easy to do on ALT) or
- C) Have the moderator's status revoked.
-
- Beyond that, a moderator is the "lord and master" of the group. If you
- are going to be an effective moderator, you can't let every decision be
- put up for a vote or a straw-poll.
-
- It sounds like you agree with what Jon has been doing. Why are you
- flaming him then?
-
- And you certainly can't start flaming.
-
- Jon hasn't been the one flaming.
-
- (You also can't get too upset when they call their archive name
- "JIK-DIK", but you don't have to accept it either).
-
- No, this is bullshit. Jon has every right to get VERY UPSET at that kind
- of shit.
-
- Here's some unsolicited advice: In the future, the moderator should assign
- the archive name when there is a dispute. "No ifs, ands, or buts. You don'
- like it? Start yer own archive!"
-
- In the "jik-dik" case, I think the moderator should wait for a sincere
- and complete APOLOGY first.
-
- --
- Joe Wells <jbw@cs.bu.edu>
-