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To: Road Walker who wrote (50252)	8/7/2001 11:24:22 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 275872

John, I disagree with you. The thread gained a great deal by the exclusion of Paul. It gained a freedom from attempted dominance by Paul and his toadies(are you in that group?) People can now make comments and trust that any rebuttal will be with decorum and not foul aspersions about the person/product by Paul. Any factual contribution on his part totally negated by his personal attacks against people. We can all attack back, but we demur, as we do not get into street fights either, nor do we get in the ring with pigs). How would it be if every person he attacked made a rejoinder and back he comes(always wants that last word.....don't you see that) Each one would become a never ending two sided diatribe. We are fortunate that most people desist at the childish last wordism and these mutual diatribes end in a short time. This is nothing about censorship and all about polity, if we can be said to govern our little enclave, and the rules we abide by and who enforces those rules(Mani) We have seen how lax enforcement leads to abuse and the abuses increase. Bill

To: Road Walker who wrote (50252)	8/8/2001 8:11:30 AM
From: that_crazy_doug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<< It's not the people who have Paul on ignore, they miss the stuff anyway. >> Quite honestly, I have paul on ignore, and benefit greatly when he's suspended. It still dramatically speeds up the time to read the thread because he uses like half the thread bandwidth and the messages still pop up under the 10 at once rule, but just say message ignored. << I reckon it's the prople trying to make intelligent investment decisions. Those that try to gather as much information as they can. I would put myself in that group. >> Yes, let's make Paul a martyr, despite the fact there are probably 1000s of completely worthless posts he's made on this thread, and probably 20-50 times he's violated the TOU for posting frequency, and the fact that it's the 4th time he's been banned. To be quite honest a 5 year old would have reasoned out how not to be banned by now if that was their purpose, and since paul is the most knowledgeable person on this thread (accoring to you) it's ridiculous to think that he doesn't understand the consequences of his own actions.