On Tuesday 14 March 2006 13:41, Steve Lamb wrote: > Anand Kumria wrote: > > As others have pointed out, it was poor form of me to threathen to > > unsubscribe you. So I have not done this. > > Well, at least you saw reason, sort of. > > > Unfortunately the thread is (still) continuing - so I've now > > instituted a 1 day delay for emails on this thread. I'm the first > > to (suffer) so you'll receive this directly (now) and tomorrow via > > debian-user. > > Unfortunately you did this. Which is the first time I have ever > seen it done on d-u as well and is just as bad. Congratulations, not > only are you a spam facilitator and a rules breaker (though not on > this message even though you said you would) you're not the first > person that I am aware of to ever stifle conversation on this list > they didn't agree with with thier role as a manager. Quite the track > record.
My thought was something similar. Our actions say who we are. We can, for example, talk until we're blue in the face about social injustice, but if all we do is sit at a computer and write programs for Capital One, never volunteer, and never donate to any causes that work for social justice, our actions speak louder than our words. While our words say we're for justice, our actions say we don't care. In this case Anand's actions, the first I've seen in years on DU of anyone using any kind of censorship, speak very poorly of him and, honestly, scare me. His actions say we can jump on anyone who is rude to newbies, and they can jump back. We can flame anyone who says the "Debian Way" has problems, and they can yell back. But don't ever dare to criticize Anand. He'll threaten to unsubscribe you and do something totally unprecedented: He'll find new ways to censor you and the thread. Whatever his words, his actions say you can criticize anyone you want on this thread. Except Anand. Hal -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
