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edina
response 30 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 26 17:38 UTC 2004

Cyklone, remember - you catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.
tod
response 31 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 26 18:33 UTC 2004

This response has been erased.

edina
response 32 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 26 18:39 UTC 2004

Sure.  Me too.
albaugh
response 33 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 26 19:03 UTC 2004

What I'm the most sick of is the name-calling and ascribing of motives behind
words or actions.  There was a disagreement about how to handle what was done.
A vote was held.  Some / many were unhappy over the outcome.  Deal with it.
Bring it up for a vote again, if it amuses you.

Here's a radical idea:  How about another rogue staff carrying out the
"unauthorized" restoration of the items from tape???
edina
response 34 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 26 19:09 UTC 2004

I've been doing tons of reading today on the 9/11 Commission/Clarke Testimony,
and I came across a quote in an Op-Ed piece by E.J. Dionne Jr.

"One great thing about democraciesis that they make it very hard for secrets
to be kept forever, for claims to go unchallenged indefinitely and for those
in power to escape responsibility."

There is a lot of name-calling going on and I hate it, as I think all it does
is add to the lack of credibility.  I will look past what I'm being called
to see what's being said, but it is just one more needless hurdle.

Here is my request of those on the other side of the issue:  Why was it right,
in your eyes, to allow the continued deletion of the items?
cyklone
response 35 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 26 23:09 UTC 2004

Re #30: I tried rationality and I got bullshit.
gelinas
response 36 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 01:38 UTC 2004

(cyklone, I recommend to your attention Gerry Spence's book "How to Argue
and Win Every Time."  I think you would find it useful.  I know that I
am finding it so.)

edina, as I said at the time, I think item *authors*, the people who enter
the item into the conferencing system, have the right and should have the
power to remove their item at any time, no matter who has responded to it,
and when the item is removed, the responses should be removed as well.
Therefore, I had no problem with valerie removing her 'baby diary' items.

The outrage over her action convinced me that things were different here.
So I waited to see what the membership wanted.  I also argued for accepting
her actions.

BTW, I felt that her decision NOT to remove Item 39, when jp2 requested
it, demonstrated that my view was not as generally accepted as I expected.

The recently approved proposal on item deletions will, in my opinion,
forestall a recurrence because it has made explicit what many implicitly
accepted and expected.
lowclass
response 37 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 02:16 UTC 2004

     So, seeing as Grex has been around for a while the original FOunders own
everything that's been written here?

        THat's farcical, and deliberately so. THe iten entry might belong to
the intiiating poster, but nothing past that point that the origionator hasn't
contributed would EVER belong to the, in any case. USage, in the form of
posting an item is one thing, but ownership is a totally diffent concept.
Ownership and use were confused, or worse, and tend result was the erasure
of total line of conversation. At NO time did I or do i EVER, transfer
ownership of whatever I write here to the styaff or board. If THAT is non
profit practice or worse, bylaw, please inform me here.

        If that's the case ,i'll be out of here so fast you'll hear the somic
boom.
gelinas
response 38 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 02:25 UTC 2004

No, it's not the case, lowclass.  I thought it was, but I've since learned
I was wrong.
parcel
response 39 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 03:30 UTC 2004

When you gonna learn you're wrong about /etc/passwd, chump?
soup
response 40 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 04:05 UTC 2004

re 33 I volunteered gelinas for that job.
coopcf
response 41 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 04:08 UTC 2004

Hey guys:

Item 7 in the agora40 conference contains a lot of content that eventually
migrated to the divorce item created by jep.  Is there evidence that this
conference has had increased activity due to people attempting to find
out more about the situation?
aruba
response 42 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 05:53 UTC 2004

Re #37: The issue has never been ownership, Carl.  Grex stopped publishing
some text, but at no point did anyone asserted that had anything to do
with who owned it.

Brooke: as I said, I'm utterly sick of this whole thing.  Everyone has
already stated their opinions many times here. (I hope you realized that
the discussion took place in many, many items in coop?  Dunno if you read
them all.  If you did read them all in a day, God help you.)  So I don't
feel like starting the argument all over again by stating mine again.
Email me if you really want to know.
jp2
response 43 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 06:07 UTC 2004

This response has been erased.

twenex
response 44 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 13:13 UTC 2004

Question is, if *gelinas* is an idiot, WHAT does that make polytwerp?
cyklone
response 45 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 13:52 UTC 2004

"The issue has never been ownership, Carl.  Grex stopped publishing
 some text, but at no point did anyone asserted that had anything to do
 with who owned it."

BULLSHIT! That is *EXACTLY* what this was all about. The
anti-restorationists voted to strip non-favored users of their rights to
control their posts in order to do personal favors for favored persons.
The problem is that feeble-minded people started making specious arguments
about how the users never lost any rights because they could repost their
words. I very patiently (at first) explained the fallacy of that argument.
Sadly, a bunch of unprincipled fools either didn't have the brain-power or
didn't want to use what they had to understand this very obvious point. 

If the anti-restorationists really believe this is NOT about ownership,
then here is my proposal:

                        RETURN MY DAMN POSTS!!!!!!!!!!!!
parcel
response 46 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 27 16:42 UTC 2004

YEAH< ANTI_RESTORATIONISTS!
jaklumen
response 47 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 28 10:55 UTC 2004

resp:29 I do too.  (I like the way Brooke put things.)

resp:36 if I understand it right, responses to an item should be 
controlled by those who write them... because they have merit and worth 
of their *own*.  I'm not an expert on copyright law or any sort of that 
precedence, but I think the argument that has been put forth is valid.  
An item author should *not* delete responses even if he/she decides to 
delete the original item-- I think the rights belong to those who wrote 
the responses.  At least, it would seem to be that way with the 
precedence of the scribble command (and how freeze and retire now 
stand).  Scribble seems to point to a response by response, post by 
post, ownership.
gelinas
response 48 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 28 11:38 UTC 2004

Arguing against response 36 is unnecessary.  The recently approved proposal
on item deletion contradicts that response.
parcel
response 49 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 28 18:14 UTC 2004

Contradict isn't the right word.
aruba
response 50 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 29 03:47 UTC 2004

Re #45: The ownership of a response has no bearing on whether Grex is
obliged to keep publishing it.
parcel
response 51 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 29 04:18 UTC 2004

don't hurt yourself, aruba.
glenda
response 52 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 29 06:13 UTC 2004

I see Grex sort of like a library or a bookstore.  Books go out of print or
are removed from the shelves to make room for newer books all the time. 
Sometimes a book sits there and gathers dust for a while before it gets
noticed as not moving.  Once it is noticed that it isn't moving, isn't being
bought or checked out or even taken from the shelf and glanced at; it is
taken off the shelf and either boxed up to be put in storage, given away,
remaindered, or just thrown out.

I haven't heard any massive outcry from authors of those books because they
were permenantly removed from the shelf.  Libraries and bookstore don't give
guarantees that books will remain on the shelf forever, neither does Grex.
Nowhere on Grex has it ever been said that items will stay around and never
removed.
parcel
response 53 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 29 07:27 UTC 2004

It's absurd to use that as an excuse for unecessary censorship, though.
cyklone
response 54 of 109: Mark Unseen   Mar 29 13:05 UTC 2004

That's for damn sure. Once again long-time grexers struggle to create
pointless analogies to justify personal favors for favored persons and to
justify denying users the right to control what happens to their posts. 

I'd love to see where in Grex's policies or terms of use it says Grex is
like a library or bookstore where managements controls the "stock" of
words.

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