List etiquette question

[Harry Hoffman]

It's not a meeting it's a *community*. One that is lively, has many 
participants and many different ways of doing things.

As long as everyone can understand everyone can't we just agree to disagree?

I'm on a lot of mailing lists (and have been for quite some time) and 
while ppl get upset by things such as lame postings and auto-responders 
(out of office) they never seem quite as militant as some of the ppl on 
this list.

:-(


John Summerfield wrote:
> 
> In any properly-run meeting, the most important (highest-priority) motions are 
> those to do with the running of the meeting itself; how can you possibly make 
> decision about whether to raise membership fees unless you're agreed on how 
> to make the decision?
> 
> Unlike a properly-run meeting, this list lacks a chairman with the power to 
> evict the unruly, or a sargeant-at-arms to effect such a decision. However, 
> in many respects a maling list is a special kind of meeting and we must have 
> and agree to rules for its conduct.
> 
> To an extent, those with the knowledge to impart and the esire to impart it 
> have the edge over those lacking the knowledge; if we're sufficiently 
> offended we can just leave.
you don't have enough knowledge to be pushing this crap :-(
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