[Sca-cooks] STOP TOP POSTING!

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 8, 2006, at 9:06 AM, Tom Vincent wrote:

> Well, that's part of the problem isn't it?  Shouldn't this be  
> *everybody*'s list, not just "Papa's"?  One person gets pissed off  
> and can arbitrarily kick people off, delete messages or shut down  
> the list completely?  Shouldn't decisions (rare though they may  
> arise) be made by the entire group directly or a smaller body of  
> directly elected representatives?  Just a few thoughts.

Ummm... no. One person created and maintains the list (with help from  
two others, I believe), and obtained the server space. That one  
person sometimes has to make speedy decisions of the type you  
describe above, but never, ever makes them arbitrarily. This list is  
Gunthar's virtual living room. His house, his rules, and nobody who  
doesn't like it has to stay.

What's pretty amazing is not the number of people who have come and  
gone on this list in the [approximately] nine years it's been around,  
but the number who have come and stayed.

Adamantius, who sees the violence inherent in the system, help, help,  
we're bein' repressed




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eat cake!"
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"Confessions", 1782

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