[6950] in APO-L
Re: Censoring APO-L
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey David Brown)
Sun Oct 17 01:35:57 1993
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1993 01:31:52 -0400
Reply-To: Jeffrey David Brown <jb8x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
From: Jeffrey David Brown <jb8x+@andrew.cmu.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list APO-L <APO-L%PURCCVM.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Added.Igjk=pe00Udb471E5t@andrew.cmu.edu>
Amanda Dickerson <axd19@PO.CWRU.EDU> writes:
> I know of several times when people have been
> asked not to post about certain topics. Not
> that anything could be done to stop people
> from posting whatever they want, but just
> making brothers feel they have done something
> wrong by posting doesn't seem right to me.
Hmm, reasons to censure what is posted:
1) This is NOT, repeat NOT a private mailing list. Some of the
addresses on this list are actually bboards at big schools.
2) People tend to get pissed off when you criticize them in public.
This leads to flame wars which make all of us look really bad.
3) When you're trying to get a piece of legislation through at the
board level or other levels, you don't want some random person to
unknowingly screw things up for you. Imagine if our president were
engaged in sensitive negotiations with the BSA, and someone posted a
message degrading the BSA right at that moment. How do you think Gerry
would feel?
Anyway, those are the reasons I know. Anyone got any others?
Those are general thoughts. I don't know of specific instances when
people were asked to refrain from posting. If there was a certain
instance that seemed unjust, my response would be different.
Peace,
Jeff "Reds" Brown
Random Brother
Kappa Chapter
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
jb8x+@andrew.cmu.edu Phone: (412) 681-1363
reds+@cmu.edu CMU Box 102, 4825 Frew St., Pgh., 15213
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Disclaimer: I'm the only one <stupid,crazy,tired> enough to write this.
