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Subject: Re: Hans Gerber is suspended--thanks for your understanding

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 01:14:08 06/30/00

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On June 29, 2000 at 19:19:14, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>On June 29, 2000 at 17:30:24, Tom Kerrigan wrote:
>
>>We (the moderators) have been getting a lot of user feedback regarding Hans
>>Gerber. This afternoon, we finally decided to (temporarily) suspend him. The
>>process took so long because of disagreements between moderators, his reluctance
>>to identify himself, etc. I apologize for the "delayed reaction" and hope that
>>our action appropriately addresses everybody's complaints.
>>
>>-Tom
>
>Just some questions and observations:
>a) How much post are "a lot of feedback"?
>b) do you count as counter-feedback the post that does not ask you nothing
>against Hans Geber or whatever he could be?
>c) and by the way, why are you stopping thread short of completion as if in them
>we were telling dirty jokes?
>d) which is the proof and not the suspiction that Gerber is Tueschen? I do not
>want to be heavy, but some paranoids posts has been posted in the past -I
>myself, I have commited that sin- trying to dicover Chris Wittintong ego behind
>almost any new poster that happened to write so well or so sharp as Chris.
>e) I thought witch-hunting was out of fashion.
>f) Even if Gerber is a new Tueschen incarnation, so what? Did he kill somebody?
>OK, some people here does not like his post or the kind of post pertainning to
>this kind of real poster or supposed poster called Tueschen, but then what. I
>did not know a member was compelled to read everything.

It's a purely technical consideration, Fernando. As soon as he has identified
himself to the satisfaction of ICD, he will be allowed back in under his real
name.

Andrew Williams
CCC Moderator


>g) I am in this club almost from the beginning and so I know well about wars and
>threads and again I wonder, so what? This is not a chapel where kids sing
>Chritmas songs, this a club where grown-up people gather and talks and if
>somebody cannot resist the style of Mr X, well, he can go, he can just not read
>Mr X, he can answer, he cand do what he please. What he should not do is this
>school-shy-boy behaviour of asking "fa" to come to the rescue.
>Fernando



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