Re: Please Everyone
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- Subject: Re: Please Everyone
- From: S* J* <s*@hoor.mail.telia.com>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 23:32:22 +0100
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Duncan!
I've been on this list for a quit long now, and I think You should stop mails
that don't belong here. I think You should give Yourself athoroty tu
Unsubscribe those who cannot respect the subject for this list.
Sorry if my English is out of order.
Sven n Sweden
Marge Talt 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
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>
> ----------
> > From: Robin Kirk <robin454@email.msn.com>
> > Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 8:33 PM
> >
> > good point, nan. A list should be for a variety of people, with varied
> > interests. If you allow self-appointed assholes to define the universe
> of
> > discourse, you end up with little net gods with their personal domains.
> > Democreacy rules!
