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Subject: Re: Moderation rules.... STOP!!!!

Author: Dirk Frickenschmidt

Date: 18:16:07 09/20/98

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On September 20, 1998 at 17:11:00, Steven Schwartz wrote:

Hi Steve and Bruce,

sometimes I wished we could meet about such questions in real life for short,
drinking a beer together and debating it without this lousy indirect internet.

I am quite sure that within five minutes it would become perfectly clear and
acceptible why Bruce finds it ok to give Tueschen a new try, just like I or you
accept it for perhaps slightly differnet reasons. And within the same five
minutes I could tell Bruce in how far it is not my supposed strange European or
German or even Prussian stubborness - trying to have rules for everything and
control anyone - but rather quite an everday approach which leads me and which
could as well be quite American, while leading me to other conclusions
concerning some (not: any!) interdepence between behviour on CCC and rgcc.

I am quite sorry it often rather looks like a form of ideologic struggle and not
as what it really is and has been from my view - namely trying to find
pragamatic and justified decisions for getting a non offensive CCC atmosphere
from the start.

With a beer in real space instead of cyberspace all could be settled fast: I
could tell Bruce that I don't want to control people's behavior on rgcc at all,
but that I don't like intrigant ways of dealing with CCC in rgcc, and that I
still would not accept someone doing so, while Bruce would tell me about the
advantages of letting the old decision behind and try something new.

Just on internet we don't see faces and real convictions while talking and
rather have imaginative ghost pictures of each other causing us some trouble...

All the best to both of you,
hoping we will still find a way to *see* how much we perhaps agree on
fundamental questions and understand and respect each other even where we prefer
slightly different ways and interpretations of what happened...

Kind regards
from Dirk

>On September 20, 1998 at 17:00:24, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>
>>
>>On September 20, 1998 at 14:03:59, Steven Schwartz wrote:
>>
>>>I think that Bruce should simply have said that
>>>because Rolf has shown good behavior over the
>>>course of the last several months, that CCC would
>>>like to invite him back.
>>
>>This would have been politically expedient, but dishonest, which is why I didn't
>>do this.
>>
>>bruce
>
>Since it was Rolf's good behavior over the last several
>months that instigated the invitation to ask him back,
>there would have been no dishonesty involved.
>
>No matter what your opinion was concerning the reason for
>Rolf's dismissal, I believe that had he continued his
>attacks in rgcc to this day, he never would have been
>invited back to CCC.
>
>- Steve



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