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Subject:Re: I'm NOT fed up with Eric's Rules From:Mary McWilliams Johnson <mary -at- SUPERCONNECT -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 27 Oct 1998 10:29:41 -0600
I think Eric has every right to moderate this list as he sees fit. He's
responsible for it, after all.
I like to see civilized discussion of things pertinent to our profession. I
don't want my mailbox cluttered up with petty conversations about
irrelevant stuff.
Cordially, Mary McWilliams Johnson
McJohnson Communications
Documentation / Web Site Design, Development and Graphics
www.superconnect.com
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At 05:05 PM 10/27/98 +0100, Pluciennik Tytus wrote:
>I tend to agree!
>
>Tytus Pluciennik,
>Gdansk, Poland
>tytusp -at- adlex -dot- com
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Nichols [SMTP:mark2051 -at- YAHOO -dot- COM]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 4:51 PM
>> To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>> Subject: Fed up with Eric's Rules
>>
>> For too long, Eric Ray has controlled and restricted information on
>> this list. When people have raised controversial, inflammatory, or
>> decisive topics, he has stopped the threads, issued his idiotic little
>> ADMIN posts, and removed members who expressed their ideas. Eric might
>> not have a responsibility to publish, but he has taken his job as list
>> moderator WAY too far. He has gone beyond merely policing the group,
>> to practicing full-scale censorship and ppression.
>>
>> A growing number of us are sick and tired of his fascist rules.
>> Under the guise of moderating this group to only talk about technical
>> communication, Eric wipes out all dissension and topics which he
>> personally feels are irrelevant. Hey Eric - some of us would like to
>> hear those ideas!
>>
>> In the last three months, Eric has removed scores of members for
>> violations of his intolerant rules. This list has become a laughing
>> stock of the technical communications community. Some writers find
>> this list so horrible, they will not even accept posts forwarded from
>> the list. My manager thinks this list is a utter and complete waste
>> of time. The woman in the cube next to me dropped off the list almost
>> a year ago. Her reasons "nothing even remotely interesting is ever
>> discussed on the list. That guy controls every word on there. You
>> can't post anything without a nasty message from him."
>>
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