Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:40:19 04/12/00
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On April 12, 2000 at 00:24:34, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On April 11, 2000 at 22:09:06, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On April 11, 2000 at 17:45:59, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >> >>>I think we've said what we're going to say about the judgment issue. I think I'm >>>right, you think you're right. Fine. It was the moderators' call to make, maybe >>>we made the wrong one, oh well. >>> >>>What you still haven't answered to my satisfaction is this: if the situation was >>>so clear to you, why didn't you say anything? >>> >>>I was trying to determine RR's identity for probably 24 hours. You're saying >>>that his identity (i.e., not Ossi) was clear to you immediately. So what were >>>you doing the whole time? Were you thinking something like, "I know who RR >>>really is, and the moderators don't, and they're making a big mistake, ha ha!" >>>In other words, do you really like having big arguments with me more than you >>>like to help your fellow man? Consider that a rhetorical question if you want. >>> >>>-Tom >> >> >>It is easy to answer: (a) I was a moderator for an extended period of time. It >>was time-consuming to handle the complaints; (b) I handle about 100 emails per > >Right, but you're not a moderator now. So that's not really a reason not to make >a complaint. > >>day now, that takes a lot of time; (c) by the time _I_ read the post, you had > >So you "handle" 100 e-mails per day. What does this matter? Does that somehow >make writing a short e-mail really hard? It means (a) I am busy and (b) you had already read the thing and responded, so it was obvious you had seen it. I couldn't imagine _anybody_ not knowing that posting private email is wrong. > >>already read it and responded to it. I assumed a little bit of knowledge about > >So I read and responded to it. But you say you knew I was making a mistake. >What's to keep you from e-mailing the moderators and saying, "hey, you're making >a mistake." The mistake could easily have been corrected with your input, but >you obviously elected to complain about bad decisions instead. Didn't someone post a response to you that said just that? Again, I don't 'duplicate' if I can help it, as it wastes time. > >As for the rest of your post, I don't care. Like I said, you have your opinion, >I have mine. Please drop it instead of repeating yourself. I can read just fine. > >-Tom This isn't about opinion. This is about something that is either right or wrong. In this case, _wrong_. posting private email is _wrong_, period. No opinion wanted or needed there.
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