[SCL] Re: zzz standard ...

[Murray Altheim]

Bill Andersen wrote:
> On Dec 30, 2003, at 0945, Jon Awbrey wrote:
>
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>>pat hayes wrote:
>>
>>>Please do not feel under any obligation to inform us about anything.
>>>We have many sources of information from various communities.
>>
>>it doesn't show.
>>
>>jon
> 
> Jon, I will say again to you here what I said to you at least once on
> the SUO list:
> 
>      Propose something constructive or leave the list.
> 
> If your ideas are indeed so groundbreaking and your breadth of knowledge
> and experience half so broad as what you make them out to be, then you
> should have no difficulty whatsoever developing all by your lonesome the
> ultimate logic-for-all-time we've all been looking for.  If you would do
> something other than spew oddly-formatted text and actually make 
> something
> concrete that others could test and evaluate, perhaps people would be 
> more
> prone to listen to you.  As it is, they're not.  I invite you to go off
> on your own and create something to impress us.  Come back when you have
> something.

Bill,

Exactly where do you derive the authority to talk to anyone that way?
Who positioned you as the arbiter of what is appropriate communication
around here? I don't remember there being a vote, and your continued
calls for censorship (either of Jon, or of political views you disagree
with) are certainly going to be ignored by anyone who doesn't respond
to military-order style demands. We're not in the military here.

Just because some people commonly talk to others rudely on this list
doesn't license everyone to. This is the *least* civil list I've ever
been party to, second probably only to some news groups I remember
from back in the mid 1980s, and they were discussing religion.

Murray

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