At 07:53 12-2-2003 -0800, Nick Arnett wrote:
The problem is, you *can* do pretty much anything you want. Other than leaving this list and set up an other one somewhere else, there is nothing we can do if you decide to run this list like a dictator.I don't see this as *my* list, even though it operates via server. That's why I don't use the phrase "list owner," but "list manager" instead. I regard that role as stewardship, not ownership. I have a greater ability to do damage to the list, but just as it managed to migrate from Cornell to my server, it could migrate again. I'd be kidding myself if I thought I could do anything I want.
This is not a democracy, but that doesn't mean it is totalitarian.
Given my experiences so far, I have some doubts about that. :-(
I did notice a decline in the number of replies to my posts. But if people choose not to reply to my messages because of a Legal Notice, then I consider that to be their loss, not mine.Seeing your later posting, I should add that several people have asked, all off-list IIRC, for a discussion of Jeroen's legal notice, which I find bothersome, too. At the risk of being paternalistic, I'll note that some people were quietly following a policy of not ever replying to a message with that notice, and I wasn't sure that Jeroen even realized.
True. That's why you can do anything you want to this list. Nobody is going to setup a new Brin-L, and we can't force you to migrate Brin-L to someone else's server if we decide you have overstepped your authority as a list admin.I feel like adding a reminder that anyone can start a new list... but get a creepy notion that that's something like Bill Gates saying that anyone is free to write their own operating system.
Jeroen "Bad Idea" van Baardwijk
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