Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:04:37 -0600 (CST) From: Christopher Palmer <cpalmer@jig.ordway.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Off-topic: politics (groan) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9903182047100.23725-100000@jig.ordway.org>
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Hello all! If you are not interested in petty squabblings, delete this post. If you are, get a life. :^D Context: A while back, David Greenman posted a response to a list member who was complaining that he felt uncomfortable posting to this list due to flames. DG asked if we thought anyone was especially guilty of flaming, and I pointed my finger at Greg Black. The reason I did so was because I thought the way he treated the CMP journalist who posted a jumble of basic meta-questions was cruel and unusual. I still think that, but I have come to realize that my condemnation of Greg might have consequences for him that are undesirable both to him and to myself -- his removal from the list (unlikely, but threatened), and his loss of egoboo due to my flaming him for flaming. As I told DG and Greg, censorship is an anathema to me, and I do not and never did wish to get Greg removed from this list. I would like to express my regrets for having condemned Greg publically, because it has caused more trouble than it has been worth and because it has not caused him to change his mind about what he did to the unsuspecting (?) journalist, which was my original intention. This is not to say that Greg has not reconsidered what he did. We have talked about it privately, and we still both hold the same opinions we did in the beginning about this whole affair. My point? It's all very silly, and I wish I had not bothered to respond in any way to the CMP Clubie Debacle. Consider my condemnation of Greg retracted. I understand this kind of crap has nothing to do with the list as it is chartered, so please flame me privately -- I don't want to see any more of this on-list. Thanks. And now back to your regularly scheduled programming... :^) Christopher Palmer Assistant Systems Administrator, Ordway Music Theatre cpalmer@jig.ordway.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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