[WikiEN-l] Moderation on this mailing list

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Tue Feb 20 14:58:31 UTC 2007


On 20/02/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> on 2/20/07 9:26 AM, David Gerard at dgerard at gmail.com wrote:

> > No, which is why we try to keep a light hand and err on the side of
> > letting stuff through. It takes a remarkable level of stupid for us to
> > bother doing anything.

> But David, this takes me back to the original question: Is it really
> offensive to call someone abusive? I, personally, would not use the word to
> define someone, I would, instead, describe their behavior as abusive; but
> isn't that, in the context of this List, somewhat nickpicky?


I'd generally allow it to pass myself in the first instance, FWIW.
Though I'd expect substantiation to follow. It's supposed to be a
productive working list for a project.


- d.



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