At 3:03 PM -0800 2/19/01, jofo@INNERCITE.COM wrote:
>  >   Anybody checked out Hober Radio? ...........
>                <snipped>
>
>>    Gary,
>  >   Please refrain from posting messages like this....  just because you
>  > put "no Vanagon content' in the subject line does not mean it is okay to
>  > post such a completely non-Vanagon content message.... Please try to
>  > remember there are 800 or so us out here that have to read at least the
>  > subject lines... AND all this non-Vanagon stuff uses up space in our
>  > archives.... AND wastes the time of those searching the archives for
>  > years to come.
>
>Bill -
>I missed the message appointing you "Minister of Posting Correctness and
>Punisher of Transgressors"..   90% of your postings fail to meet your own
>standards - for example, where is your vanagon content in this message?
>
>This is not your list - it belongs to all 800+ of us - and I'm sure
>that I'm not
>the only one who finds value in "off topic" tips, stories, jokes,
>and questions.
>As has been said before, if you don't want to read it, delete it.
>
>You've started yet another off topic, useless thread.  I've never set my mail
>reader to delete an indiviual but you are a prime candidate.
>
>Take a Prozac, shovel the driveway or what ever - but LIGHTEN UP!!

John,

In my opinion,  Bill was right and you're out of line.  Bill's
message was polite and direct, giving good reasons why non-Vanagon
content should not be posted.  (The most compelling, IMHO, is that
this sort of thing will be in the ever-growing archives *forever*.)
He didn't use inflammatory terminology (such as 'nazi'), he simply
asked Gary to refrain from completely Vanagon-unrelated postings.
He said 'please'.

As an aside, even Fridays are supposed to be restricted to humor
content that's nominally Vanagon-related.

Coyote
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