(urth) OT urth crackdown!

Fred Kiesche godelescherbach at gmail.com
Mon May 24 10:40:37 PDT 2010


Mark Twain has returned from the afterlife to do his memoirs? Cool!

On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:26 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

> Pax Romana
>
> On 5/24/2010 11:52 AM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>
>> 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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scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?" (The Duke of Gloucester, on being
presented with Volume 2 of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.)
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