Re: The End of my Rope

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On Sat, 23 May 1998 13:48:52 -0500, Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>
wrote:

>     Maybe. However, you are talking about a small, sterile, environment
>which seems on the way to becoming smaller and more sterile. If there is
>not, soon, an end to the constant meddling of forum managers and
>suppression of discussion of important issues, more individuals and
>groups will announce their departure from Delphi (e.g. a recent email
>group notification) or they will say nothing and simply not show up any
>more.

If the meddling by the forum managers is in reference to the recent
thread about the Asimov site that the forum managers killed, I'd have
to say that they were doing there job.  That's what we "pay" them for,
to keep inappropriate material out of the Forum.

And it is funny because the thread had died out quite nicely with no
hard feelings from anyone when someone with a user name of SIFAN (I
wonder who that could be?) started up the whole nasty business again.
That is when the forum staff stepped in and took charge before the
thread could get any nastier.

If the e-mail group that left Delphi that you refer to is Texas II,
the Appleworks user group, she did not leave because of meddling by
the forum staff, she left because she didn't feel that Delphi would be
an asset for her to keep.  I'm not even sure that she has left yet
because I've seen some messages from her after she said she would no
longer be there.  By the way, she had cancelled her Compuserve account
just before appearing on Delphi.  She now has her own web page and a
mailing list but I don't have the information handy.  I can get it if
anyone wants it.

By the way, did you get yourself an account or are you just relying on
hearsay?

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         Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University on Delphi