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Subject: Re: from the moderators...

Author: Ernst A. Heinz

Date: 06:49:20 01/18/99

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On January 18, 1999 at 09:16:21, Harald Faber wrote:

>On January 18, 1999 at 08:14:52, Ernst A. Heinz wrote:
>
>>>Note that this prohibits objecting to removal of messages, but does not
>>>prohibit discussing moderation issues in a general way.
>>
>>This additional condition reverses your above "revised policy" back again
>>to your previous style. Apply this condition and no CCC member is allowed
>>within CCC itself to openly protest the removal of a post discussing general
>>moderation issues. In this respect, your wording actually changes nothing in
>>principle as long as you insist on the additional condition.
>
>Let me explain shortly:
>We don't want nor need or see any sense in discussing EACH single decision in
>public.

Agreed -- neither do I.

>>>3)  Quoting of email, without the sender's consent, is prohibited.
>>
>>As you said, you are keenly aware of your responsibilities. Hence, I do not
>>understand why it should be forbidden to *anonymously* quote your responsibly
>>formulated messages if they serve to demonstrate the point of the discussion.
>
>E-mails are s.th. special. They are private. And if you quote A moderator's
>e-mail there are only 3 persons who can have written them.

True, but just recall the current discussion -- if I had not *anonymously*
quoted the moderational email in reply to my official protest, near to nobody
would have believed me and the discussion would never have started.

Therefore, I still think *anonymous* quotes of email messages from moderators
with *strictly* moderational content are appropriate and thus must be allowed.

>>P.S.
>>I am well aware that my above stated opinions are surely biased by the
>>events which lead to the current moderational discussion. Nonetheless,
>>I hope to have been able to still conduct a somehow objective analysis
>>of the moderators' statements. If the majority of CCC members think that
>>I did not succeed in doing so, please frankly tell me to shut up.
>
>Calm down, we didn't give you a yellow card. :-)

I am not upset -- really. (Nobody except myself will probably believe this. :-)

This sentence was not directed at the moderators but at the general CCC public.

It was meant to express that I am willing to stop this long-running discussion
about moderational style if most other CCC members feel that my arguably fine
points of objection are somewhat paranoid.

=Ernst=



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