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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" color=#000080 size=2>Further to my last mail, I
strongly felt that the initiator's views were academic and unrealizable. I
didn't think they needed to be mocked. There were tens of posts and I've
read only some. You could obviously judge and choose which ones were
moronic.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"><FONT color=#000080><FONT size=2>Whether you are
an official moderator or a volunteer, and though being new to the list, I
ask you to read the "<SPAN
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LIST AGREEMENT</STRONG>" <FONT color=#000080>and apply same to your response. I
ask you to check your own multiple policy violations and if it is within your
mandate to advise me of my violations that resulted in your considering to put
me on moderation for my post.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" color=#000080 size=2>----- Original Message
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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" color=#000080 size=2>From: "Eugen Leitl"
<</FONT><A href="mailto:eugen@leitl.org"><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"
color=#000080 size=2>eugen@leitl.org</FONT></A><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"
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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" color=#000080 size=2>To: <</FONT><A
href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org"><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"
color=#000080 size=2>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</FONT></A><FONT
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<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" color=#000080 size=2>Sent: Monday, September 03,
2007 1:26 PM</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" color=#000080 size=2>Subject: Re: [ExI]
free-will, determinism,crime and punishment (& CS techniques - Security
and/or Privacy )</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"><BR><FONT color=#000080
size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" color=#000080 size=2>>
On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 06:04:10AM -0400, Gary Miller wrote:<BR>>
<BR>>> It is one thing to reiterate that a thread is dead as a moderator
that is<BR>>> within your rights.<BR>>> <BR>>> But to reply
publicly and in doing so to promote your own viewpoint when you<BR>> <BR>>
My viewpoint is that this was a moronic thread, and I apologize for not<BR>>
nipping it in the butt (yip! yip!) -- I can't camp in front of the<BR>>
display all day long, after all. (Or can I?)<BR>> <BR>>> expect others
to not reply <BR>>> because the thread has been declared dead by you is in
my opinion an abuse<BR>>> of power.<BR>>> <BR>>> I realize
that you took the moderator position because nobody else wanted<BR>>> it,
and I thank you for that I think, but<BR>>> I would suggest that you do
not put out fires by fanning the flames.<BR>>> <BR>>> I also think
the tone of the reply was rather insulting and would have<BR>>> expected a
better showing from a moderator<BR>>> representing this group.<BR>>
<BR>> I reserve the right to poke fun at particularly idiotic
posters.<BR>> <BR>>> Currently this sounds more like censorship
and punishment of opposing<BR>>> viewpoint than moderation.<BR>>
<BR>> I must admit my first impulse was to put the guy on moderation, but
I<BR>> figured he probably missed the killthread. <BR>> <BR>> --
<BR>> Eugen* Leitl <a href="</FONT><A
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