Ball of Fluff
4/2/2008 1:38:00 PM
<anothersurfer999@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3ca26f91-3104-4efc-8071-3aadfb2b4cc7@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
> It's obviously a private chat group.
>
> And they are apparently rather paranoid -- which is within their
> rights. You might have been... duh-duh-duh-duh! OSA!!!!
>
> EEEEEEEK!
Yeah, whereas the forums and chat rooms maintained by others never ever
mention OSA.
(gentle sarcasm)
>
> Anyway -- why care?
>
> And you can learn a lot about a group by how it treats -- Oooooo --
> Outsiders!
Wait a minute. All they did was kick off an inactive ID. There was no
"treatment" of anyone about it.
>
> Free speech is not guaranteed for privately-run enterprises. So it
> goes,
There wasn't ~any~ speech to guarantee, protest, go along with, kick off. It
was an inactive nick.
>
> They are well within their rights to kick anyone out. Just... learn
> about that group based on your own experience. I know *I* have
> learned something about that venue based on your story and the
> responses to it here from those who are apparently its denizens.
From what Henri says, it wasn't a question of kicking anyone out.
>
> Thanks for the report and the post of the chat taking place while. It
> helps to see how lurkers are treated there (among other things).
Would you like to know what happened when a friend of mine who is well known
in critical circles tried to join in and log into Lermanet? Banned for
abuse. The person had never done anything abusive on any forum, anywhere,
never been in CofS, none of that.
>
> Gives good insight into the folks who hang out there. :)
Gee, thanks a lot. I hang out there as do a number of very nice people of
whom I'm quite fond.
Personally, I think this thread is informative and indicates much about some
people- but not the ones to whom you allude here.
C
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