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Re: My Stance
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 22 Oct 2000 22:23:54 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Eric Joslin writes:
> In lugnet.admin.general, John Robert-Blaze Kanehl writes:
> > Would you give cancer or a terrorist a second chance?
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> First of all, I'm not 100% sure the term "second chance" applies. After
> all, he is a new member. We're not talking about "fool me once, shame on
> you, fool me twice, shame on me" here. I'm also not suggesting that *every*
> time he acts up Lugnet should be forgiving. He is a new member, he is used
> to The Ways of Usenet (which are *not even close* to The Ways of Lugnet) and
> I am willing to believe him when he says he sees the difference and wants to
> participate in Lugnet.
I'm sure the phrase "new member" must means different things to different
people -- perhaps two weeks to one person, two months to another, or even two
years to another. In any case, for the record, Matthew's first post here was
on April 9, 2000 -- some 6 1/2 months ago. Not that it has any bearing on
what happened (IMHO).
--Todd
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| (...) Agreed. I went and looked using the search function. I may have missed some but I found a number of posts from Matthew going quite a ways back. Some were hyperbolic, but none (that I found, but I may have missed some) were vitriolic. Nothing (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) D'oh. I don't know where I got the impression that he was fairly new (to posting, at least, because there's no way to tell how long someone's been lurking). That does color things slightly- after all, it means he's been here long enough to (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) First of all, I'm not 100% sure the term "second chance" applies. After all, he is a new member. We're not talking about "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" here. I'm also not suggesting that *every* time he acts up Lugnet (...) (24 years ago, 20-Oct-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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