[boc-l] ADMIN: Annoyance or interested?

[Kenneth Ruch]

let him rant


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On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Ben Cohen <ben at glaver.org> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> Mr. Mumford is, once again, up to his old tricks of a seemingly endless
> stream-of-consciousness set of rants. As I remarked to a friend (and the
> owner
> of the host servers), I'm not quite sure if it happens because he's
> started up
> on drugs or he's stopped taking them.
>
> In any event, I would like some input from the list community as a whole -
> are
> you comfortable with / welcoming of his on-going rants or shall I, once
> again,
> place him on moderated status (with, honestly, the expected result of my
> probably not letting anything from him through).
>
> Please note: 1) this is going to the list as a whole, so he's seeing this
> as
> well; 2) feel free to respond either privately or publicly; 3) this truly
> is
> an honest request for input.
>
> There is, basically, nothing else that happens on this list, so I feel
> like,
> on the one hand, letting him rant on isn't necessarily "bad". On the other
> hand, I'm pretty sure that this wasn't what most of you were looking for.
>
> And then, finally, on the gripping hand (look up "The Mote in God's Eye",
> by
> Larry Niven, for explanation), there's even the question of whether the
> BOC-L
> list should continue as a list at all. It certainly seems that, with
> nothing
> to discuss ... it might even be time to allow it to peacefully pass into
> the
> night.
>
> Please - consider the discussion now open.
>
> YnsHLM,
> Ben
>
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