From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:46:37 -0400, "Kevin J. Cheek"   
    wrote in   
    in   
   rec.arts.sf.misc:   
      
   > On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 22:56:52 +0100, Helen Hall   
   >  wrote:   
      
   >> I don't think Tina meant to imply disagreement with your   
   >> viewpoint and I  don't disagree with it either, but the   
   >> thread was showing signs of  rising heat and therefore   
   >> was not appropriate where it was.   
      
   > I really don't care to argue my viewpoint, and for a very   
   > basic reason:  Some people are hunters, others aren't,   
   > and east is east and west is west and never the twain   
   > shall meet.  [...]   
      
   Piffle.  The real situation is far more complex than that.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > Rather, it was the manner in which it was done which set   
   > me on edge. In particular the term "idiocy"   
      
   Correction: 'idiot, non-rasfc relevant comments'.   
      
   > and a fiat declaration in a non-moderated newsgroup.   
      
   There wasn't one.  Tina's original request was simply   
   'Please take it to rasfm'.  It was followed by a   
   parenthetical comment pointing out to David F. that she'd   
   have been blissfully unaware of the thread if he hadn't   
   posted in it -- she has a rather considerable number of   
   people killfiled -- and expressing the opinion that a lot of   
   it was off-topic for rasfc.  She did specify what parts of   
   it were off-topic.   
      
   > I would not have been offended if this had been made as a   
   > suggestion rather than a command, and if a neutral term   
   > had been used.   
      
   It was a polite request, not a command, and there was no   
   indication at that point of just what parts of the   
   discussion Tina thought 'idiot'.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > In particularly, spelling out the group name rather than   
   > use rasm would have done wonders to clarify what was   
   > going on. Since I skim the topics, I did not notice that   
   > it had been agreed to create (I assume the newsgroup was   
   > created for this purpose) rasm for hot button topics.   
      
   It was not: it already existed, with a description   
   compatible with such use, and was not otherwise being used   
   for much of anything.  There was a good deal of discussion   
   when the decision was made, and the policy has been in   
   effect for a while now; it would not have occurred to me   
   that someone whom I recognize as something of a rasfc   
   regular might be unaware of it.   
      
   [...]   
      
   Brian   
      
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