[Klug-general] KLUG made Frankenstein Mailing List

[George Prowse]

Alan Pope wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:20:14PM +0000, Karl Lattimer wrote:
>> I don't see how this is any old crap, sure the topic changes shouldn't
>> have been made, but in all seriousness its not _THAT_ far off topic.
>>
> 
> Repeatedly bashing Bill Gates is on-topic for this list is it?
> 
>>> Of course you can _ask_ people to stop. Whether they comply or carry on is 
>>> another matter.
>> I think even asking people to stop with something like this isn't
>> helpful, it ends up getting too close to censorship.
>>
> 
> Not really. You can blow it up as a censorship issue if you like but that's 
> not the intention. I was merely irritated by the repeated non-threaded Bill 
> Gates bashing. If it was one thread maybe I could ignore it, but repeatedly 
> it becomes tiresome.
> 
>>> That really doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
>> FYI: The reason I found it interesting, is because of the causality
>> aspect, not because it involved Bill Gates, but of course for someone
>> who knows me as well as you allegedly do you should have known that,
>> right?
>>
> 
> I never gave any indication as to why I thought you might find those threads 
> interesting. Now you're trying to second guess why I am not surprised. Who's 
> making judgements now?
> 
>> I don't think you know me well enough to make judgments like that about
>> me. If I make a statement about myself that's one thing, but for you to
>> use that statement to make a half way insulting comment is a ridiculous
>> way to behave. 
>>
> 
> Ditto. 
> 
>> If you want to have a go at me in future, don't make snide comments,
>> confront me head on.
>>
> 
> Feel free to carry on with these confrontational mails Karl, but I really 
> don't think it's helping.
> 
> Al.
> 
Whoa! How the hell did we get to this? A discussion as to whether we are 
better off with Bill Gates is cool but this has no place on the list.

If you dont stop it i'll call Darl McBride :D lol