-=> Earl Croasmun wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 ~>  EC> Say, didn't you read the rules?  You just violated the first one.

 ~> How did I do that?

 EC> "1.  Try to maintain a thick skin and keep to the issues to
 EC>      the subject matter.  Flaming fellow posters at any time is
 EC>      not allowed."

I did not see that as a flame, but as a facetious question. I did not, however,
expect you to see the irony expressed or implied.
 
 EC> And now you compound it by violating the third of Ceppa's rules:

 EC> " 3.  Moderator decisions are final.  There will be no discussion of
 EC>      those rulings in the Echo."

It would help if you labeled your often specious opinions and pronouncements as
moderator messages/decisions instead of allowing the rest of the world to
assume that it's just more of your futile attempts to bend intelligent people
to your viewpoint.  
 
 ~> For instance not allowing the schoolyard bully tactic of referral to Ross
 ~> Sauer as "Otto"

 EC> A trifecta, since you now insult Sauer's PARENTS -- the people who gave
 EC> him the name "Otto" -- even though they have never posted a single
 EC> message in fidonet.  And a strange insult, since I doubt there is any
 EC> schoolyard anywhere in the country where calling someone by their given
 EC> name would be considered "bullying."

I insulted no one except in your fevered imagination. Ross has said he does not
go by the name "Otto" and wishes to be referred to as
"Ross" or "Sauer".
Therefore use of "Otto" in the manner in which is is being used by the
over-aged schoolyard bullies is, in fact, bullying.

As makes no difference. I am going to take a vacation of unspecified length
from this trash heap you call POL_INC. Even the recent addition of Mark Lewis
as a poster has not served to raise the signal to noise ratio to an acceptable
level.

Perhaps after we get an actual moderator in this echo and not just some
opportunist who has an ideological axe to grind I may return. Or maybe before,
just to torque your jaws. Meanwhile, I have other and better things to do with
the time remaining to me on this whirling mud ball.

While I'm gone do, please, try to make up your mind if you're emulating Ulyanov
or Goebbels.

ENJOY!!!

From Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
Home of YAHOOOOAHHHH Hot Sauce & Hardin Cider 

 

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