Women and TLUG - a personal rant

[John]

On 14-01-16 03:16 PM, Bill Duncan wrote:
> I think we're all in agreement that William's comments were totally
> out of place.  I haven't met him, but I suspect that he meant no harm
> and it was his misunderstanding of what is (and isn't) acceptable
> behaviour.  I'm hoping that he'll come forward and apologize and that
> we can all get beyond this.
>
> The topic of free speech and censorship seems out of place here as it
> is a private list and the elected executive have the power to do as the
> members want.
>
> The issue might be a more practical one however; who would moderate such
> a list?  How would that impact the timeliness of replies (and that some
> members might be waiting for a timely reply to issues they have)?  So,
> would some poor sole be required to moderate the list daily?  Several
> times a day maybe?
>
> I'm thinking that rather than putting the onus for filtering on one
> person, that we're all grown up enough here to spread the pain and
> do the filtering ourselves.  If we object to something that was said,
> either skip it or say something and then skip it.  But let's move on..
>
> While I find William's comments abhorent, distasteful and agree that
> we all should be disgusted by them, I'm amazed at how much bandwidth
> this has generated.
>
>
> If he has misunderstood or misjudged what is appropriate conversation
> then educate and expect an apology.  If that doesn't work, then send
> him a note saying "thank you very much but you're not welcome here
> anymore" and move on.  I don't think anyone actually wants the job
> of moderating the list and the list would become less relevant if
> we only received them in batches every so often.
>
>
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