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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jen, I'm quite surprised by your outburst. You're doing more than "pick a bone" with me. For starters, it would have been fair to you and me, if you had kindly posted your original message to Goanet and my response to you alongwith your outburst below. I have neither your original message or my response to you. If I recollect correctly, you were enquiring who was the moderator of the WGD yahoogroup and what was the criteria to join that yahoogroup. I responded suggesting you contact Rene Barretto. A few points: 1) It appears you did not contact Rene Barretto. Because if you did, you would have learnt that Rene is/was a MODERATOR of the WGD yahoogroup. George Pinto has indicated that he created and disabled the yahoogroup. He is *the* OWNER. Your subject message to Goanet was certainly long before George 'disabled' the WGD yahoogroup (I think)? 2) There are many messages that come to Goanet that are innocuous queries. People ask for addresses / phone nos / emails of institutions and people in Goa. Some ask for music. We respond directly without sending the message to Goanet. As a moderator I can only read the content of the email and understand what is said. I cannot read the intent of the poster unless you are one of the very few vocal Goanetters who persist in generating and participating in flame- wars and indulge in several attempts to embarrass fellow Goanetters. I considered your query an innocuous one and gave you the right information at the time. I did not understand then or now what is the significance of your query and why you think it deserved to be 'censored'. 3) Goanet would not like to act as a megaphone for needless dissent and infighting among Goans who are all trying to reach fellow Goans thru their websites, mailing lists, etc. Goanet would instead like to support them - you see several posts from fellow Goans publicising their websites and mailing lists on Goanet. I would hope those individuals would afford Goanet the same opportunity by publicising Goanet on their websites, mailing lists, etc. 4) Email is an impersonal mode of communication and people can be easily misunderstood. But if we persevere in using it and communicate a lot more with each other, we will not end-up building walls around ourselves, from behind which to throw flame-darts at each other. Too bad you bottled-up your frustrations and harboured these thoughts all these months. An email to me would have cleared up the air rather than foster these feelings of mistrust all this time. I hope I have addressed your apprehensions. If you have any further public or private comments to make with regard to this issue, feel free to air them. The less suspicious we are of each other, the better for all of us - for our own sake and the Global Goan community. Best Wishes - Bosco Goanet Admin http://www.goanet.org/index.php *** On Thu Aug 3 03:10:35 PDT 2006, Jen Lewis wrote: I had posted a query long ago on goanet about world goa day yahoo group and its moderator. This post was blocked and not allowed to appear on goanet and i had a reply from Bosco (as Goanet admin) asking me to enquire with Rene instead. Now, my query was cleary for someone on goanet to answer and I do not understand why it was censored and didnt appear on goanet. >From Geroge Pinto's recent mail(WGD origin)on Goanet , I have now learnt the answer to my query long ago as to who the moderator of the WGD yahoo group was! and also why the membership was denied as a result of being unapproved within 14 days. I still need to know why Bosco decided my post was not to appear on Goanet and for him to personally answer in his own way(not what i asked)instead. Jen _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org