Fred wrote:
The passage quoted is at variance with our procedures. A signed in user, unless they engage in gross violations can expect due process.
Fred, please *read* what I write next time. I used the words "technically and legally" - that has *nothing* to do with our policies and social norms (what you call "procedures").
A business still has the technical and legal ability to kick you off their property any time they want and for whatever reason (even no reason) even though they almost always let you into their establishment to perform certain transactions.
My point was that editing Wikipedia is not a right - it is a freely granted privilege. The trouble with very longstanding freely granted privileges is that after a while people start to think of them as rights and then start to make demands.
-- mav
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A bad habit of free people. We have no intention of acting in arbitrary ways or of not responding to reasonable demands. Nor of establishing a legal right to do so. Our terms of use creates rights in the user. We could set forth the proposition that no user has any rights whatever but have not chosen to do so.
Fred
From: Daniel Mayer maveric149@yahoo.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 08:49:14 -0800 (PST) To: wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Going to Court
after a while people start to think of them as rights and then start to make demands.