Re: Fed up with Eric's Rules (NOT)

Subject: Re: Fed up with Eric's Rules (NOT)
From: "Walker, Arlen P" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:42:18 -0600

For too long, Eric Ray has controlled and restricted information on
this list. When people have raised controversial, inflammatory, or
decisive topics, he has stopped the threads, issued his idiotic
little ADMIN posts, and removed members who expressed their ideas.
Eric might not have a responsibility to publish, but he has taken his
job as list moderator WAY too far. He has gone beyond merely
policing the group, to practicing full-scale censorship and
ppression.

Do us all a favor, whoever you are. Grow up! Nothing that has ever happened
in the years I've been on this list has ever even approached either
censorship or oppression. I'm frankly astonished that someone who claims to
be a writer would know so very little about the meaning of either of those
words.

I am sick and tired of every interesting or remotely controversial
idea being squashed on this list.

Personally, I'm sick and tired of folks who think this list is the proper
venue for venting their spleen about their own (or anyyone else's) favorite
hobbyhorses, rather than dealing with issues of technical communication. I
don't know about you, but I already *have* a life; I don't need to spout a
bunch of drivel anonymously to be validated.

Moreover, if you use a news reader like Outlook Express or Netscape,
you can scan the topics and read only those threads that interest you.

Funny. I can do that in my email reader, without having to go to such
outlandish lengths. I just read the subject line and the From: line, and
decide if it's worth opening.

Incidentally, Eric, myself and others hold numerous "phantom"
accounts on this list.

Gee how threatening! It never fails to amuse me how stupid some people can
be. 90% of the "phantom" accounts can be located with no more than a few
minutes' work.


Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 224

Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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