Kai Kaltenbach (was: RE: What other lists are there?)

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Wed May 8 10:22:55 2002

Wayne M. Smith wrote:
>>On Tue, 7 May 2002, Bill Sudbrink wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>>>>>A lot of folks
>>>>>>>>who had a lot to contribute here have left because of this problem.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>Got any examples to back that statement up?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Chuck McManis, Andrew Davies, Tim Shoppa... I'm sure there are more who
>>>>>>chose to simply make silent departures.
>>>>>
>
> Eric Smith too -- miss him.
>
>

Look, those are all fine names, and their contributions are missed, but
people leave lists all the time for all kinds of reasons, and even if in
every case mentioned it's the one attributed, they haven't chosen to
belabor the rest of us about it in an attempt to impose their views of
policing speech on everyone else. With minor, and ignorable, execptions,
we all want to keep things focused and on topic, but it is hard to do
that when a small minority of the most vocal about transgressions
provoke so many of them themselves.

I have a feeling that some are absent just because they're busy with
other things, though, or their interests have gotten more focused on a
particular vendor or model. Whatever the case, there's nothing
preventing anyone from starting their own list. In fact, you have to
question why anyone would hold that stick over anyone else's head if so
many were so dissatisfied, and they were confident they could do any
better without actively driving traffic off themselves.

There are people on every list whose behavior will annoy you. I could
have some choice words for one or two individuals myself at the moment.
  But I'm going to refrain because it's just not constructive. And I
think some people mean well, but need to take honking big log out of
their eye before presuming to pass judgement on others, however annoying.

jbdigriz
Received on Wed May 08 2002 - 10:22:55 BST

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