To quote another administrator of a different list, Decorum: -Propriety and good taste in conduct or appearance. -The conventions of polite behavior. Messages posted to this listserver must have decorum. Decorum is maintained when messages address technical issues, or are complimentary of individual persons or groups of persons. Decorum is lost when a message denigrates a lack of technical understanding on the part of an individual or group of persons. Decorum is lost when a message denigrates professionalism, individuals, or specific groups of persons. Decorum must be maintained even in the face of provocation. In your reading of posted messages, please recognize that technical assertions in messages may not be technically correct, or may not be technically correct in the context perceived by any one subscriber. Correcting such assertions is an essential function of this listserver. Such corrections must address the technical issues, not the person who wrote the message. Each subscriber to this listserver must feel free to post a message without fear of being belittled in any way. Decorum is the means by which this is accomplished. Subscribers posting messages lacking in decorum will be cautioned. If you would like to discuss decorum further, please do so off-line and directly with me and the other administrators. If you feel a message violates these rules of decorum, please notify one of the list administrators. Best regards, Rich Richard Nute IEEE emc-pstc Administrator c/o Hewlett-Packard Company San Diego Tel: 1-858-655-3329 e-mail: richn@xxxxxxxx At 02:51 PM 12/02/2001 , Ray Anderson wrote: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- someone said: >Why does old frats like you always take cheap shoots at me but ....... ....lots of stuff deleted... and then someone else said: >Sorry, but I can't let this one slide. Ding me if you must. ...even more stuff deleted.... and then someone again said: >You are being to annoy me. You are running around saying...... ...... and yet again even more stuff deleted.... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- <net-cop mode on> OK already.... This thread is spiraling out of control with a couple of the participants needing to get the last word in and "one-upmanship". Please put your egos back in their respective boxes and refrain for letting them run rampant on the list. I believe the author's points have been made. As such, let's just let the thread die a natural death and let the list get on with business as usual. si-list has been in existance for about 8 years and presently has well in excess of 2000 participants. To my knowledge this is the first time that such a 'list war' has broken out. Hopefully it will be the last. Several of the list members have suggested sanctions up to and including the removal of the war participants. I think that is a bit extreme at the moment, however if the current situation doesn't resolve itself, the "tribal council" will speak....... As someone mentioned, just lighten up and get on to more important and enjoyable things. <net-cop mode off> And now back to our regularly scheduled programming :) -Ray Anderson si-list admin . ------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from si-list: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field or to administer your membership from a web page, go to: //www.freelists.org/webpage/si-list[1] For help: si-list-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'help' in the Subject field List archives are viewable at: //www.freelists.org/archives/si-list[2] or at our remote archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/si-list/messages[3] Old (prior to June 6, 2001) list archives are viewable at: http://www.qsl.net/wb6tpu[4] ----------------------------- British Prime Minister Tony Blair pointed to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and said the Taliban regime had no "moral inhibition" on slaughtering innocent people. "There is no compromise possible with such people, no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror," he said. "There is just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it and defeat it we must." "Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far,far greater," he said. ---------------------------- Bill Owsley, owsley@xxxxxxxxx 919) 392-8341 Compliance Engineer Cisco Systems 7025 Kit Creek Road POB 14987 RTP. 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