Re: Please Everyone
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- Subject: Re: Please Everyone
- From: m* l* <m*@micron.net>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 07:39:54 -0700
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At 03:27 AM 1/7/99 -0500, you wrote:
>I beg to differ. Democracy does not rule in this case.
>
>Duncan McAlpine OWNS this list; the subscribers do not. He started it;
>he takes care of it (something that takes a good deal of time); he pays for
>the costs of the server time, connection, etc. It's HIS list, which he
>offers to all of us as a service, free of charge. He has a perfect right
>to set any rules he wishes and to remind people of those rules as often as
>he wishes. He can call the list anything he wishes. If people don't like
>it, they can, quietly and with good manners, remove themselves forthwith.
>
>Duncan has provided a valuable service to us all and does not deserve
>getting any grief over it, privately or publicly.
>
>Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
>mtalt@clark.net
>Editor: Gardening in Shade
>current article: Galanthus - The First Sign That Spring Will Come
>http://suite101.com/welcome.cfm/222
>
Bravo, Marge. Margaret L
