To: Ramsey Su who wrote (5841 ) 11/29/1997 6:33:00 PM From: Duane L. Olson Respond to of 152472
Ramsey, appreciate your taking the time to share your views and offer suggestions. Please check the following "proposed rules" for the SI, and see if they conflict with anything you have said.. 1. Free Speech should be maximized. Any legal speech is permitted, so long as affected members are freely engaged in a mutual discussion. No views should be barred from any thread, so long as they do not violate rules 2 and 3. 2. Comments attacking an individual rather than an issue or viewpoint are not tolerated. 3.. An SI member has the right not to be contacted by anyone to/about whom they are not posting and by whom they have requested not to be contacted. Thanks for your time... dlo P.S. I enjoy very much going //OT//; I'm surprised you got a different impression somehow... dlo "The Saintly One" P.P.S. Judging from other mail I am receiving, the SI is roughly following the above rules already. There are folks no longer with us. P.P.P.S. Concur the post I used as an example was "mild"; I used it only because it was the last in a string after the individual was politely requested not to make further contact. Most of the earlier abuse was not against me. Could we agree that if you break into my house to scream epithets at me, that this might go beyond "free speech"? P.P.P.P.S. Would you also perhaps agree that someone who feels a need to attack a person, rather than attacking that person's viewpoint, might be somewhat deficient in the intellectual arena? At least they come across as unarmed opponents in a battle of wits -- present company excepted, of course, Ramsey <<gg>> All seriousness aside, I would appreciate your commments, as I am making a valiant attempt to avoid taking your advice :-) dlo "The Saintly One"