Text 17516, 77 rader
Skriven 2007-08-19 11:59:43 av Richard Fallstrom (3993.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Newsgroup back!
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In article <0001HW.C2EDF4A8031F725FF0407648@news.verizon.net>, Amy
Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:

> >> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:47:06 -0400, StarFuryG7@aol.com wrote
> (in article <1187542026.863519.58680@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>):
> 
> >>>> On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 02:05:18 -0400, StarFur...@aol.com wrote
> >> 
> >> (in article <1187503518.949987.84...@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>):
> >> 
> >>> No, what you're engaging in here is being a deliberate
> >>> condescencing snob <<
> > 
> > On Aug 19, 9:57 am, Amy Guskin <aisl...@fjordstone.com> wrote:
> >> My deepest apologies to everyone here.  It seems as though the move of the
> >> server must have caused some technical problem or other, as I am
> >> apparently_not_ seeing all of this person's posts in order to moderate
them
> >> in advance of their appearing here on the newsgroup.  I really, really
> >> apologize to you, Rob.  This should _not_ have gotten out.  
> > 
> >         So Amy, am I therefore understand that his arrogant,
> > sarcastic, utterly insulting message in my direction, which was
> > deliberate and calculated, and intended to evoke an angry response,
> > and which I was responding to there appropriately taking that into
> > account, should have shown up without a problem, but my post reacting
> > to him in response should _not_ have appeared?
> >         Where's your apology to me for what you just said and what you
> > just confirmed? <<
> 
> You are getting no apology, because none is due.  Add to the list of holes in

> your education the information from the group's moderation FAQ that describes

> what sort of posts will be disallowed on the newsgroup.  From 
> http://members.aol.com/rastb5mod/mod-faq.html#Disallowed:
> 
> >> Flames are defined as posts which:
>  1. personally insult or hurt one of the members of the newsgroup; or
>  2. make allegations, without corroborating evidence, concerning a 
> person/poster in the newsgroup, in a deliberate and repetitive manner 
> (resembling a common sense definition of libel/slander, but not specifically 
> limited to the legal interpretation of those terms). <<
> 
> You and Matt each made one transgression, at which point I warned you both.  
> You are the only one who has continued to personally insult members of the 
> newsgroup.  Someone disagreeing with you, and informing you that your 
> information is not correct, is not "flaming" you.  Saying, "You are incorrect

> about your understanding of Usenet and the Web" is an allowable post.  It is 
> not insulting.  You may indeed be insulted by it, but it's not a personal (ad

> hominem) insult.
> 
> Everyone who has posted information about the nature of Usenet and the Web, 
> besides you, has simply been trying to educate you, because whether you 
> believe it or not, your understanding of this is _incorrect_.  Your response 
> is to continue to insult people.  That is why you are now (finally, the 
> gods/esses bless you, Cheryl!) on hand moderation.
> 
> As a side note, it would be very easy for you to go off to one of your other 
> online haunts, or to e-mail, or your local coffee shop, and to ask some of 
> your own friends about this.  Unless they have a vested interest in letting 
> you continue to be deluded, or they have very little technical savy, I'd be 
> surprised if you don't know _someone_ who can affirm for you what we are all 
> saying, repeatedly.  Heck, go someplace where they _hate_ this newsgroup and 
> the people in it, and they'll tell you you're wrong, too.  Guaranteed.
> 
> Amy

Something I have learned over the years is: ignorance is curable.
Willful ignorance, like stupidity, cannot be cured by throwing money at
it, legislating against it, or by attempts at medicating it.

Rick (sometimes is a GentleRF and sometimes is not)
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