Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 15:25:00 04/05/98
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>Posted by Fernando Villegas on April 05, 1998 at 16:33:30: >Hi Ed: >Your post, as always, is a jewell of well pondered thought an >equilibrium, but creates some new problems. You mentioned it: where is >the threshold? I have read enterely the thread about the issue of the >german magazines accused of being a liar and all the rest and althought >there are here and there some expresions that can be dimed as maybe >somewhat strong, there is nothing so extraordinarely harsh as to do an >issue about it. In the dilemma between suffering flames and a cluster of >rules stablishing directly or not how many times you can be harsh, I >prefer the first thing. I don't care if anybody insult me. I can launch >my own broadside. I am adult enough and I have a very hardened skin. I >don't need to be protected by anybody and nobody needs it. Problem with >rules is that at last they are enforced and the result is or nothing or >an increasing lose of interesting people. First it was that german guy, >rolf I believe, that was insultant, yes, but interesting to read in some >of the topics he wrote about. And then was Chris W, one of the most >witty guys that has written here. What's next? Maybe me because my bad >joke about my suicide? There are already people talking of that. >Ed, we can hold it. We can forgive or understand. All of us know that in >the excitment of writting you write many times things you really don't >think. And even if somebody is willing to persist in his attacks for >many weeks, so what? Nobody is coerced to read nothing. But >rules...,well, 1984 is not far ahead. >Fernando CCC = RGCC - personal attacks. You can not set rules for this. It should be self-understood. It's the job of the FG to watch over this as we don't want a second RGCC. That's all. That's our only goal. As for you suicide joke, I don't think many people had a good laugh about it. But moderation? Come on... - Ed -
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