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Subject:	Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2001 07:53:59 GMT
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Some good discussion but nobody answered this question the way I expected, perhaps because I was a bit too subtle in trying hard to disengage from a particular situation (and Tim, you get marked down because you didn't stay general... :-) ) In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes: > When is this not an appropriate thing to do? Can you, the advocates of that > course of action, come up with examples of when it isn't? Why isn't it in > those cases? (or, alternatively, are you saying that "taking it to email" is > ALWAYS the correct course no matter how bad the social transgression or how > one sided it might be?) I expected someone to answer "when it is obvious that taking it to email is not going to do any good either" and the example I had in mind was the massive disruptiveness of our spoofer. ROSCO, you said "always". Can you explain to the group what benefit continuing the flamefest with MM via email (as contrasted with shunning) would have had to *anyone* other than MM, who would have been gettting his jollies over it? The appropriate response, IMHO, was the response that was taken by almost everyone... Shunning, followed by administratively enforced ostracism. Duane Hess was trying a different approach, of course, and it's one that, if only practiced by one person instead of by everyone slugging it out, and if done so dispassionately (props to Duane for pulling it off I think...) I think was effective in that case in that it made it clearer that something needed to be done. Discuss. ++Lar

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		Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
(...) Aint diversity wonderful? 8?) (...) Are you disappointed because you didn't get the answer you expected? Or just surprised? (...) Um, careful with the out-of-context quotes, Larry. I said "always a reasonable course of action". I then went on (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

		Re: When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
(...) Well, would saying that mean that we would advocate keeping it public? I wouldn't. I'd just advocate dropping it, not spreading it into the public domain. (...) Again, are you suggesting that keeping it public would be better than keeping it (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		When is it appropriate to "take it to email" and when isn't it?
(...) I would like to dig into this notion a bit more. I think there are situations where it is flatly incorrect to advocate this. I want to stay out of the particular situation that provoked the request and not use it as an example, but I would (...) (23 years ago, 22-Jun-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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