On Dec. 1, Dov Sherman wrote :

|Radical?  Well... actually this is a very normal stage of growth for net
| communties.  A given net community reaches a degree of growth where it
| can no longer support a single focus and someone suggests making rules about
| behavior.  The group then becomes focused only on how to make and enforce
| these rules and the original focus of the group becomes lost.  If you
| want an example, take a look at LambdaMOO today compared to the way it was
| three years ago.  It used to be a fun little hacker's haven and now it's
| just socio-political soapbox land.

|Please let's try to avoid going this route.  You can't make rules about
| moral behavior.  It just doesn't work and can only make things worse.
| Let's just try to individually behave maturely like the adults we're supposed
| to be.  If someone doesn't, that's their own business.  Tolerance is
| generally much more effective.

I agree with you Dov... If you don't want the topics, then just delete them.
Why do we have to have a code of some kind... ? It's restricting one's
freedom (to post nonsense or sense)... Besides, when you subscribe in any
ML, you should know the ropes fast...

Michael Francisco (OAA)
CCS9519793@dlsu.edu.ph