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To: maried. who wrote (280)	2/28/2002 10:28:10 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

( If this becomes a post, I guess for the time being, I am not banned?) I have never seen a post of yours that would suggest you ever would be. Are we not doing the same thing? No. This is kindergarten. :-) Isn't this a place where ideas and opinions, no matter how outrageous, can be exchanged in an anonymous forum? Exactly. That's what the thread header says. The problem was NOT exchange of ideas; the problem was scurrilous charges of cyberaffairs with others. JLA and E worked long and hard to broker a reasonable settlement that was refused. Nobody will be banned for opinions. If they make a charge that they had a long, hot, lurid exchange of sexy PMs with you, they'll be gone as soon as I know about it. Go take a look at the Beanie Babies thread for the last week or so. There was no intelligent discussion. The thread was absorbed just what you say is no problem. dismissing people from discussions is juvenile. That depend on how juvenile the behaviour of the person being talked about is. Three-year-olds aren't invited into serious discussions.

To: maried. who wrote (280)	3/1/2002 6:50:34 AM
From: thames_sider	Respond to of 21057

Does [it] offend us so much that we must ... change the ballfield and not allow these "undesirables" from entering our new space? In this kind of forum, it's the only way to respond. The juvenile behaviour is in the continual disruption: only here, we can't send a child to its room - instead, we close the doors to ours. And it needn't be permanent, only until the JD has agreed to behave by the rules of the room. They have the freedom to visit and read here, but not to post as they will (and can elsewhere): if we want to interact with them, we can - but we can do so now on our (or LL's) terms, rather than theirs.