>On Sat, 25 Feb 2006, Tim wrote:
>>  On Feb 25, 2006, at 1:15 AM, Frank P. Eigler wrote:
>>  >
>>  > Agreed, attitude *does* matter, but may I suggest it's a two way
>>  > street.
>>
>>  "BUT" cancels out everything said before it....
>
>Everything? I disagree.
>
>>  > It was a succession of belittling comments, an overtly condescending
>>  > manner, and the use of derisive sarcasm by the nanny in question
>>  > towards
>>  > listers - behaviour which had only days earlier been explicitly
>>  > *prohibited* on the list - which caused me to openly ask if anyone else
>>  > was frustrated by these double standards. I have difficulty regarding
>>  > that
>>  > rhetorical query as overtly disrespectful and worthy of being banned.
>>
>>  If I remember correctly (and I have the emails to prove it) I had been
>>  talking to Lavode and we were having a laugh together and you butted
>>  in.  Nobody had been talking to you and you started in.
>
>Yes. A good laugh. On list. And at another's expense.
>
>>  > Contrary to Tim's suggestion, I *do* have a lot of respect for those
>>  > who
>>  > give of themselves in both these and other lists in which I participate
>>  > (*especially* the moderators), but it will never be unconditional.
>>
>>  Of course!  :P
>>  > Actions such as I described above simply cannot go unchallenged.
>>
>>  Challenge OFF-list.  Especially when nobody had been talking to you to
>>  begin with!
>
>Tim  - this is where you and I have a fundamental philisophical
>difference of opinion. You openly behaved in a maner in direct
>contravention of rules you had recently articulated (rules which, you may
>recall, I *supported*), and you did so *publically* - and not for the
>first time. I, thus, commented publically (as I do here). To not speak out
>was, in my  mnd, akin to supporting your behaviour.
>
>>  > As I
>>  > commented to Tim in a follow-up email, 'setting the example' is by far
>>  > the
>b> > best service that a moderator could provide, and one of the best
>>  > guaranntees of 'peace on the lists'. At the risk of being accused of
>>  > 'kissing a**' in here, I would point to Laurent and Amber as setting
>>  > excellent examples. The quality of this list attests to that.
>>
>>  SHOW your respect then, Frank, or you will be banned from this and
>>  other lists as well.
>
>I have. One need only go back to the posts when the mods in here were
>being hassled about nettiquette issuesa while back to see an example of
>that. And no - I was not hassling; I was supporting.
>--
>Non Illegitimi Carborundum
>

This sort of dialogue should be carried on off list. It's between 2
people and has NOTHING to do with the aims of the list.
--
Terry McCune

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