ENOUGH!!! (was Re: Privacy from whom?)

[Paul Ratcliffe]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 13:40:19 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>    Well, it is time for me to reiterate the one rule on /this/ list.
>
>    Don't moderate.
>
>    There are no moderators here, ok?  None.  This list is hosted by 
me, run
>by me and administrated by me.  I have made the choice that there will 
be no
>moderation of the list.

Well you have just moderated, so this sounds rather like hypocrisy. If 
'anything goes' is the policy on this list, then why not a few 
complaints? You can't have it both ways.

>    Threads eventually die out.  There hasn't been a single thread in 
the
>history of this list during its time on my server that has gone on for 
more
>than 2-3 weeks.

Duration is not an issue. It's the several hundred messages of garbage 
that are, and God knows there is enough of it out there, without having 
to suffer it here as well.

>    So, again, don't try to moderate, don't presume to moderate, don't 
even
>think about it.

You're the thought police as well now eh?

>If a thread upsets you, you are more than capable of using the delete
>button or designing a filter to delete it as it comes in.

Like I haven't got better things to do? Life's too short.
The only filter I will use will be either to have this list on my 
machine or not.