Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 03:15:10 02/20/99
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On February 20, 1999 at 00:13:10, Will Singleton wrote: > >Today I sent a message to Djordje. It contained a request to desist from >off-topic posts. (And I apologize for this post, but felt I had to set the >record straight.) > >After that simple and polite request, I said I was removing my moderator hat, >and the rest of the message was personal, just from me to him. I took issue >with some of the statements he had made, and requested some further information. > If he felt I was harsh, I did not intend to be at all. But that was strictly >between him and me. It was a PERSONAL communication, that was absolutely clear. > There is no reason at all for him to withdraw. My moderator duties do not >prohibit me from emailing someone on a personal basis. > >I apologized to him because I wrote something in a way that could have been >misunderstood. But nothing harsh or underhanded was intended. Sometimes we all >have strong opinions, and we express them sometimes well or sometimes poorly. >Maybe I expressed them poorly. > >But this was a personal message, had NOTHING to do with CCC, and he has no >reason to withdraw. Moderator on and moderator off, the letter is written by the same person that is moderating in that very moment and may continue to do so. His moral stature may be accepted or not. Using an analogy that we can all easily understand, imagine you are a Jew in Aushwitz during nazi times and a German writes you from Germany a letter saying: “I sincerely hope that your relativism sees you through gas chambers, that are pretty absolute”, followed by other sarcastic remarks. How is a Serbian living in Serbia supposed to take sarcasm about relativism and the “absolute” bombs just about to fall on his country and maybe on his head? My deep sympathy and solitarily to Djordje, Enrique >He makes very valuable contributions, and we would all miss >his presence. > >Will Singleton
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