Just as many hotels use Fawlty Towers as training videos for their staff and
would-be politicians have used Yes Minister to learn certain behaviours and
skills,  I think Mr Guy  reminded us how a good list should work.

over time,  his incessant  rantings took him out of the "useful comment"  to
the "amusing" then to the "painful"  category of contributor.   Then I
realised he was a karmic training exercise,  sent to us by the Great Spirit
to remind us how to behave (and not to behave)  to each other on a list.
Thank you, Great Spirit.  Thanks also to John Cleese etc  and the people
behind  Yes Minister.

 Life is full of valuable lessons...

ain't it grand!







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Lawrence" <jon&#167;jonlawrence.com>
To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 4:01 PM
Subject: Re: [DNS] James Guy


>Quoting Sally Jonas on Wednesday July 23, 2003:
>| >
>| > "We don't like what you are saying, so you can't say it here"
>| > ???????????

No Sally - what happened here is: "We don't like the way you're dominating
our discussion forum and after numerous suggestions from list members on
how to be a more measured and constructive participant and a warning from
the list manager to restrain yourself, you have now been relieved of your
posting rights."

I'm not particularly comfortable with the concept of banning people from
this list but I also think that Mr Guy gave the list manager no option in
this case.

There's of course nothing to stop you or anyone else pursuing the same
issues
that were buried somewhere in the stream of consciousness emails that were
pouring out of Mr Guy, though hopefully in a manner more conducive to actual
discussion, and I for one would welcome it...

jon


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