Admin: "Don't make me get my belt..."

[tim elliott]

Thanks, Ben - once again the cool head of wisdom. BTW, how do you ever
manage
to herd cats, I can't get them to do anything they don't want to do...
tim 8>)...


On 9/17/07, Ben Cohen <ben at tmk.com> wrote:
>
> Hey, folks,
>
> There seems to have been a bit of rancor over the past couple days or so.
> The
> timing, quite honestly, couldn't have been worse as it landed right at the
> same time as the Jewish New Year, so I've been fairly busy (in a
> non-electronic fashion) as well as, now, being horribly behind work-wise.
> [Yes, I work. :-)]
>
> A few things:
>
> 1) For anyone who cares, I'm the owner of the list and the only moderator.
> My
> preference, in general, is to *not* need to flex my moderator muscles. I
> have
> only done so when there have been egregious personality issues. (You know
> who
> you are / have been.)
>
> 2) To respond to an off-line comment on-line (because the individual
> involved
> won't be named, so I'm betraying no confidences) - I will *NOT* be
> changing
> the list into a fully-moderated one. Honestly, I would shut it down before
> I
> went that route. We're all adults here, and I expect everyone to behave
> that
> way.
>
> 3) Regarding the recent flap and kerfluffle... There are special tags set
> up,
> but no one is required to use them, nor to constrain themselves solely to
> the
> ones that are pre-defined. We've *always* ranged far afield in the
> discussions
> that evolve here and, oftentimes, those tangents are useful / interesting.
> I
> will, at least to a *certain* extent, support Mike M's request that folks
> use
> (more) appropriate tags, but, as I said above, will not insist upon it nor
> require it.
>
> 4) While the name of the list is "BOC-L" and has the explicit purpose of
> discussing BOC and HW, I don't really have a problem with discussing other
> bands / music / whatevers that wind up being even tangentially-related.
> After
> all, merely by way of example - why wouldn't we talk about, say, Michael
> Moorcock in relation to HW? He writes books, but that doesn't detract from
> the
> interest and input we can gain from such a discussion. [Note, this was not
> intended to spark a discussion about Michael Moorcock - it was just
> intended
> to be illustrative.]
>
> So... back to the topic(s) at hand. Play nice and please respect each
> other.
> Think of this as a big cocktail party where everyone sort of overhears
> what
> everyone else is saying (funky acoustics). Also, don't be afraid to change
> the
> subject of a thread / reply chain if you think that the topic has shifted.
>
> Your humble owner / moderator / ringmaster / cat-herder,
> Ben
>



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