On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 14:52, Dan Smith wrote:
> >From the posts I've read so far, James seems to be taking the heat for
> the decision.  The situation was discussed by the admins as a group
> and the decision was not taken lightly.  Please do not single out
> James - the reason for having multiple admins is to spread the load a
> little.
> 
> As admins of the list, we want to make sure that it is a place that
> people feel happy to post to and have discussions on.  I'm sure that
> everyone has seen the flame wars that many usenet groups and other
> lists have descended into - this is one thing that we really want to
> avoid.
> 
> In an ideal world, us list admins would never have to intervene. As it
> is, it is rare for us to have to do so.  Unfortunately, it is
> impossible to please all of the people all of the time.

Dammit Dan, you beat me too it! 

As Dan has said, James was not the only one who had something to do with
this, all of us were involved with the decision.

Let me add that these resulting threads are proof enough of why certain
people have to go. It isn't so much the actual strict content of their
messages, it's the reaction the messages gather. 

Look how many message have been wasted because of ONE SINGLE STATEMENT,
which most certainly have been said in thousands of "better" ways, ways
which would not have resulted in all this extra crap. Flame fests are
usually started like many fires: a single strike of a match. Flame fests
are NOT what this list is about. I know I don't have time to sift
through all the junk of a flame war even if I WEREN'T an admin.
Therefore sometimes getting rid of the source of ignition is the only
option.

I generally stay out of the flame fests that result from this, but this
time I felt too much was being shoved onto James.

Now, lets finally get back to more important stuff. TTYL

Herbert Graf
Piclist Admin #42 (42 since we weren't sure what number I should be, so
I choose 42...)


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