Hello Bosco, [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.] --------- Jen: Thank you for the clarification of your block of & response to my post on Goanet. It was indeed strange that you chose to personally answer my query when it was directed at a larger resource on Goanet.
Outburst...is a strong term. Did you really wish me to post the original mail and your response to Goanet? You did direct me to Rene. Regarding your 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)? 1. I had assumed Rene was a moderator of WGD. But IF that were true, he would have received the group membership approval mail from yahoo. But since it was not approved in the time frame required and was rejected, I was surprised and thus the query on Goanet. WGD, I believed, was for all Goans and there should not have been any problem being a member of the WGD. But there was no chance for anyone to respond to my query, as it didnt appear on Goanet. Regarding emailing Rene about the membership; IF he was the moderator and had not responded to the mail he had received from yahoo, how could I hope he had the time to respond to mine? But that is another matter and not the bone I wished to pick with you. 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'. 2. If my post was innocuous, why not let someone else on goanet answer my question since it was obviously beyond your comprehension what/ why I was querying? I didnt think it deserved to be censored or answered by you privately: that was the cause of my puzzlement! 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. 3. Am I guilty of any of these? 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. 4. I tried to communicate with goanetters with that little post. I believe it was you who disallowed it. Yes, too bad you didnt realize how a little action on your part has lead to a grave misunderstanding. There was no mistrust from my side just astonishment. -------- B: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. Jen: I am not suspicious of anyone. You need to know me better before you make statements like that. Again, I thank you very much for your kind deliberation on this bone that I have picked with you. I wish that you would learn to trust goanet posters more and not misunderstand their intent behind posts. I do appreciate that you give a lot of time and effort to the Goanet administration. Best Wishes - Bosco Goanet Admin The bone stands picked. The matter is now closed. (handshake) Warm regards, Jen =============================== *~Jen Birmingham UK http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VascokarsUnited/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IEIGLC/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/GoanStudentsAbroad/ ====================================================================== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Goanet mailing list Goanet@lists.goanet.org http://lists.goanet.org/listinfo.cgi/goanet-goanet.org
