The level of discourtesy on this list has gotten pretty bad.
When you are a guest in someone's house, it is rude to piss in the potted palm.
...much less on the host.
I may have done the palm a few times. And I have apologized to both the palm and the host.
I don't want to see anyone booted, but it really has reached that point where Doug has some serious justification.
-Chip
----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 7:30 PM Subject: discourse
> Got an email over the weekend from a veteran listowner expressing
> condolences for the abuse I've taken here, and saying that had it
> been the list s/he manages, the guilty parties would have been booted
> by now.
>
> On reflection, I think my correspondent has a point. The list is open
> to a wide variety of views, which annoys a lot of people; I've had
> social democrats urge me to boot the Leninists, and Leninists urge me
> to boot the social dems. I don't want to do that. Call me
> oversensitive, but I don't want to run a list where I get constantly
> taunted and insulted. I'm going to try ignoring the major malefactors
> for a few days; if that doesn't work, I'll haul the steel-toed boots
> out of the closet.
>
> Doug