the value of silence

[kevin]

I agree that we are all adults so let us stop the stupid fighting!
Kevin
email:
kjsisco at rcn.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: "Speakup Distribution List" <speakup at speech.braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2003 6:49 AM
Subject: the value of silence


> I share the distress Jes has expressed, but do not endorse his
> call for Kirk to intervene. Instead I endorse the appeal Shaun
> has made to ignore the fellow. I would add to that the
> recommendation to ignore the entire thread. Here is my thinking
> on it:
> 
> We are (or ought to be) a community of adults capable of solving
> group problems in a group way. Kirk's role as "moderator" is a
> technical one only. He maintains the subscription list, trouble
> shoots problems in list distribution, and so on, plus of course
> his authoritative inputs on technical matters, particularly
> speakup issues. But he is not our parent or our camp counselor
> who will step in and fix things for us when we cannot fix them
> ourselves. I am sure Kirk is as pissed off as any of us with this
> thread, and he has taken the route that we should all take:
> absolute silence.
> 
> I have modified my procmail rules for two reasons, and include
> the revision below. One reason is that my original posting failed
> to intercept messages from kevin, so that has been changed so it
> now works. The other reason is that it is no longer just kevin's
> postings that are the problem, as Jes as pointed out, but the
> entire banter they have spawned among the rest of us, who seem to
> keep trying to find a handle on this bowl of porridge. So I
> added a rule to detect and deep six all mail with the string
> "***SPAM***" on the subject line. I intend to enjoy a relatively
> peaceful Sunday with only the useful and interesting stuff
> reaching me from now on. I am an old man and do not have the
> time to wade through the crap searching for something to think
> about.
> 
> Here is my revision:
> 
> :0 c
> * ^Subject: .*\*\*\*SPAM\*\*\*
>  | play /usr/local/etc/flush.wav
> :0 A
> $HOME/mail/spam
> :0 c
> * ^From: .*<kjsisco at rcn.com>
>  | play /usr/local/etc/flush.wav
> :0 A
> $HOME/mail/spam
> 
> 
> Those of you not yet running Linux will not be able to use the
> above procmail solution, sorry about that, so get a wiggle on and
> move on up!!!
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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> 
> 
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