[boc-l] ADMIN: Annoyance or interested?

[Eric]

As long as Christian curbs the racism I'm OK with it.  He's stuff is often  
interesting if nothing else.

As for the twilight years of BOC-L it's become my habit so I would hate to  
see it go, but other sources are quicker.
I miss when Albert used to visit here..

   --Eric


On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:59:21 -0400, 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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