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To: mph who wrote (4854)	9/25/2006 10:50:15 AM
From: Done, gone.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

Starting one's own thread is not really an option unless one is retired or unemployed. Too time consuming. Well, there is the added option of compensation, isn't there? Message 22821060 Message 21534463 There was nothing wrong with the original SI model. All subsequent "improvements" that insert anyone or anything new between the poster and the reader is a mistake and should go away.

To: mph who wrote (4854)	9/25/2006 6:02:05 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6035

"The tension here is between the rights of free speech and free association" But the idea that someone is "associating" with the moderator because they dialogue with willing participants on a thread is fatuous at best. These are bulletin boards. Nobody is "associating" with anybody. Everybody has the ignore "feature". I find the very concept of "ignore" to be inane but that is just my own little opinion which I suppose I am entitled to. So how can anyone weep about how they need to ban and control the behavior of other thread participants in dialogue just because of a personal prejudice when they in fact have the ignore "feature"?? It doesn't make any sense. If I wish to dialogue with ten people on "your" thread and ten people wish to dialogue with me, why should it be a concern of yours (I don't mean you personally, of course)? One can ignore (or "put on ignore" for those so challenged) anybody they so choose to. Something else is happening here, Mr. Jones--and Mr. Jones don't know what it is...