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Re: [OM] Re: OT List Admin musings

Subject: Re: [OM] Re: OT List Admin musings
From: "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 23:08:39 +0000
Having had to "moderate" public postings and email for a BBS system some
years ago, I found the least possible intervention best, and only stepped
in when it was clearly over the edge of legality.  And there were some laws
(FCC Rules) that prohibited certain behavior, for which I could be held
liable if I didn't squelch it.  Any conscious intervention by me (its
owner, maintainer and operator) always ran the risk of censorship
accusations which were leveled on a couple of occasions, in spite of citing
legal chapter and verse.  Intervention always pisses someone off, usually
more than one person, and can easily spark its own flaming.  I support
Giles' desire (and I think a number of others') to avoid intervention and
rely on consensus and its peer pressure to keep things down to a dull roar.

This is the only list (among a half-dozen that clog my mailbox daily) that
continuously produces some great humor.  Even if I do cringe at its
occasional outrageous bawdiness, it still gets a snicker.  Oddly, the
flaming, including the legendary SUV conflagration, always seems to occur
about the time an ADITL or TOPE is about to appear, and the correlation
gets stronger with each successive TOPE.

That reminds me, I still need to get my film developed for the TOPE
submission!  For those new to the list see Olafo's TOPE site here, and I
believe there's still some time left in the "window" to shoot it:
  http://www.web-wizards.com/olympus/tope/
There hasn't as much hoopla for this one as in the past except for Olafo's
postings about it before and after his holiday.  Even if you don't submit
anything, you can always leave your critique of each entry.

-- John 

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