Sandy Sandfort wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Toto wrote:
I am finding it hard to understand how the same people who seemed dedicated to silencing Dr. DV K on this list can then turn around and 'correct' him, or 'add to' his comments, or 'one-up' him in the insult department.
Correcting is not an insult. His statement was incorrect or incomplete. I corrected it. His comment was on topic, though in error. My correction was on topic. He was not "silenced" in any way. Toto's proposition, therefore, does not make sense to me. Contrary to several peoples erroneous assumptions, there will be no flaming--of anyone--on the moderated list. When moderation is under weigh, I will do nothing to restrain flaming on the flame and unedited lists. Toto's prejudice (in the literal sense of the word, i.e., "to pre-judge") is showing.
Please don't get the wrong idea, that I'm paranoid or something, but I think I just saw a tiny leak, a miniscule Freudian slip of sorts - Sandy says "I will do nothing to restrain ..... the unedited list...". Do we now have to have occasional assurances that the "unedited" list is not being restrained? I thought that was a given, beyond question of any kind. I thought *all* of the controversy revolved around the edited/censored list (having stole the original list's name), and that everyone understood that the uncensored list was untouchable. But now Sandy is taken to offering reassurances. What's next??