chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui) (10/18/84)
Deevie, an anonymous poster for mod.singles, asked me to post this for them... ----- One thing that I want very badly to point out (TWO! two things that I want to point out), but can't, are these: 1) Mod.whatever is NOT replacing any newsgroup. It is simply an alternative for those who wish to have the chosen moderator do some 'n'-keying for them. No one's personal rights to speech are being infringed--think of it as a voluntary withdrawal of some people to a more moderate environment. You have the right to scream about Jesus Christ in a public street, but not in a crowded synagogue on Yom Kippur (which, incidentally, is what happened this year in my shul. A guy smuggled a New Testament into services and disrupted them in the middle. After a moment of shock and confusion, he was hustled out most unceremoniously by some of the men in the congregation). 2) The moderator acts as a representative of the people, one who gets his votes and instructions from those same people. No tyranny comes into the picture. It is the same reason we elect representatives in Congress--we elect them to take care of legislative business that we can't do as an unorganized mass of people. By the same token, we elect him and trust him to make decisions for us under the function of VIRTUAL REPRESENTATION, not ACTUAL REPRESENTATION. We do not have time, and it is downright impossible, to tell him/her what to vote on every day. In this way, the moderator is given discretion to act for us in selecting the wheat from the chaff--and we vote for or against his actions by telling him, or using our 'n' key ourselves. As a final thought, it seems to me that a lot of these people who are objecting to the mod. groups are simply afraid that they will be left out of an area they want very badly to belong to. -- Deevie -- From the Department of Bistromatics: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA (Editors note: Bistromatics is NOT a typo. Bistromathics is the study of math on an italian waiters checkpad. Bistromatics is the study of Italian cooking on females of the human species. Please quit sending me mail) I'd know those eyes from a million years away....
jwp@sdchema.UUCP (John Pierce) (10/19/84)
Deevie (via chuqui): > ... You have the right to scream about Jesus Christ in a public street, > but not in a crowded synagogue on Yom Kippur (which ..., is what happened > this year in my shul. A guy smuggled a New Testament into services and > disrupted them in the middle. After a moment of shock and confusion, he was > hustled out most unceremoniously by some of the men in the congregation). Very polite of them, I'd say. Actually, I'd say it was too bloody polite. John Pierce, Chemistry, UC San Diego {sdcsvax,decvax}!sdchema!jwp