Re: calls for censorship?

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by Lewis A. Mettler on 12/11/99 11:57 PM ---

>Calls for censorship?
>
>Is that what this list is all about?
>
>If somebody does not agree completely with what someone else is
>suggesting they call out the name of the other person and suggest they
>be banned or censored?
>
>I am not the one using the names of any other person on this list in the
>body of my text.
>
>I am not the one using the names of any other person who should be
>silenced.
>
>And, I am willing to not post at all unless I quote from the findings of
>facts in the antitrust trial in support of my views.
>
>If that is the standard we want in order to post, I'll go along with it.

This was a call for basic civility, and hardly the first one directed at 
you. Unfortunately, this is a concept with which you have consistently 
demonstrated not even a nodding acquaintance. If you were banned from 
this list, it would not be the first time someone had been ejected for 
engaging in relentlessly obnoxious behavior. And, as I understand it, it 
would not be the first time you yourself had been banned from a list for 
obnoxious behavior. You claim to be cleverer than everyone else, so 
certainly you can add 2+2 and come up with an accurate sum (hint: the 
answer is a whole number). And don't cower behind the banner of 
"censorship." Nobody who has spoken as voluminously as you have in this 
forum can reasonably make such a claim when he is simply being asked to 
behave like a decent human being. If you cannot comprehend what is being 
requested of you, perhaps you should depart the list voluntarily.

Mitch Stone
mstone@vc.net