[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: A response

[Andrew MacIan]

Greetings from Andrew!

Ah, Spring....
--- lupinesque <aiz24 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Andrew MacIan wrote:
> 
> > The lesson?  Amanda appears to be correct.  You
> don't
> > like the rules, leave. No two ways about it. 
> Either
> > you accept the rules or change the game.  
> 
> With due respect and thanks to Drieux, I do want to
> reiterate that 
> there is a third option:  politely, and in
> accordance with the 
> current rules (namely, offlist), send your thoughts
> to the 
> Moderators, where they will receive grateful and
> serious attention.

Is this really a *third* option?  Not trying to get
'semantic wiggle-room', but whne I thought about how
to phrase my own response, the 'ask the Mods' option
really fit under the playing by the rules option.

And it would take *far* more than this to raise my
ire, Amy {smile}.

> 
> The Moderators are very willing to change the rules.
>  That's why the 
> banned topics and other rule changes have been made
> all along--because 
>  unforeseen bones of contention emerged (the U.S.
> Presidential 
> election) or the list changed (went from 300 to 3000
> members) and so 
> new needs had to be addressed.  The list is a
> benevolent dictatorship, 
> not a democracy, but anyone who has suggestions,
> complaints, or praise 
> has our ears.

Flexibility = life; rigidity = death.

> 
> (BTW, Amanda is wrong about the lack of dirt over on
> the Mods list.  
> I've been carrying on a torrid affair with Neil for
> three months, 
> having always had a thing for chrome, and I happen
> to know that Cindy 
> only got made a Mod because she bribed Penny with
> three free months of 
> babysitting.)
> 

{raised eyebrow}  Chrome?  Indeed?  The mind boggles!

Cheers,

Drieux

...about to have his grad students do something
*useful* and polish the Morgan....

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