Re: [trinity-users] The Last Word On The Matter

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:23:18AM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: Especially when, according to the timestamps on the emails, 40 seconds later you (Kate) replied to another political email to agree. It certainly comes across as hypocritical and bossy. I think that only one person on this mailing list can issue orders about what is and what is not allowed, and that is the list owner, Tim. The rest of us can just say... please, enough is enough. This is not a general discussion forum for political matters. Please stop. (That's a request, not a demand.) As for Michael, who wrote in another email to complain about people contacting him off-list, I think Michael's demand that people keep off-topic discussions about politics on this mailing list is *completely* wrong and harmful. Two or three messages in the heat of the moment may be understandable and forgivable, but there comes a time where we as a community should bite our lips (or sit on our typing hands) and stop. There are plenty of other forums to debate and argue the political situation (Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc.), please take it there. If Michael wishes to *request* that people don't contact him off-list, that is one thing. (Of course, people are free to ignore his wishes, just as he is free to delete their emails.) But to insist that people take *private* and *off-topic* messages public, well, I consider that far more rude and harmful to this community than the things that Michael was complaining about. After all, he is free to just ignore any aggressive or disagreeable private messages, but (unless he is the list owner) I think that he is out of line in encouraging others to pollute this list with off-topic messages. Especially disruptive and angry messages about politics. If anyone (other than Tim) wishes to disagree (or even agree) with me, please take your off-topic and/or political messages to private mail. I promise to read them. I don't promise to reply (that depends on how polite you are). Let's please keep it civil and on-topic (well, mostly on-topic) here. Thank you, Steve