ADMIN: We Regret to Announce

[Tom Wall]

Melclaros wrote:
What I'm wondering now is if public pillorying is precedented.
Banning someone for questionable reasons is bad enough; it should
have been done privately and quietly. The only people who needed to
know were those involved. I see no reason that this sorry event had
to be announced with a "special notice" to the entire list membership.

Tom:
As far as I know, it is not precedented for the Moderators to 
publicly burn someone in effigy, nor is it implied or - ostensibly - 
is it allowed by the HBfile. Someone on the Admin team should look 
into that, as it's my recollection that derogatory statements made 
about other members are among the banned topics of conversation.

Furthermore, I'm wondering why it is that the ADMIN team doesn't 
classify their post regarding Cindy as, in fact, two violations at 
once, since it certainly seems to reek of "Policy" explanations from 
my end of the fiber-optic cable.

-Tom, who wants to point out that, however well-intentioned the Mods' 
request is, e-mails to -owner do not always get answered, nor should 
anyone expect them to be. If you have questions, I'd wait for the new 
policy forum to open up.