(urth) urth crackdown!

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Mon May 24 09:52:33 PDT 2010


Rome has spoken, and there is an end of the matter.

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com> wrote:
> Here comes the Argument From Authority!  As list owner, I hereby decree:
>
> Mark Twain's forthcoming memoirs are a reasonable topic of discussion here,
> but don't go overboard.
>
> It's a good idea to edit the subject line of a discussion to reflect the
> topic being discussed, particularly if the discussion is drifting away from
> the main point of the list, which is Gene Wolfe's work.  It's not mandatory,
> though, and it's not in itself a good topic of discussion on this list.
>
> Acting like a jerk is always off-topic, even if the other guy started it.
>
> This list has been around for almost 15 years with almost no moderation, and
> this has almost always worked out just fine.  Sometimes bickering has broken
> out, and some valuable members have left because of the noise.  I'd prefer
> to keep that to a minimum.
>
> If you have any complaints or comments about this decree, email me
> directly.  Note that I wasn't calling YOU a jerk-- I was talking about that
> other guy.
> - Ranjit
>
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