[HANASHIR:1910] Re: list philosophy

[Serle, Brian <BSerle...>]

Joel, do you think you might be carrying this "community" thing a little
too far?    If you insist on using such words as "redounds" in your
E-mail, perhaps you need to be subscribed to a more erudite list!
Adrian is the list owner...I submit that he can run it ANY WAY HE WANTS!
Yosher Koach, Adrian!

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Joel Siegel [SMTP:siegeljd (at) earthlink(dot)net]
        Sent:   Saturday, December 05, 1998 7:03 PM
        To:     hanashir (at) shamash(dot)org
        Subject:        [HANASHIR:1907] Re: list philosophy

        Adrian wrote:
        >Hanashir will continue to be an un-moderated self-policing
list. While
        I
        >don't want to encourage needless irrelevant postings, I do not
want to
        lose
        >our sense of community.

        .... and as one who in the past has kvetched about frivolous
messages,
        my $0.02 remains that a self-policing community remains just
that:  a
        *community*.  A functional community requires that its members
exercise
        self restraint for the good of the whole, which redounds to the
benefit
        of each individual member in turn.  I'll bet we ask our
        students/congregants not to talk during the Amida, y'know?
*ANY*
        functioning community requires self restraint: classrooms,
synagogues,
        discussion groups, chevruta, towns, cities, families.  So I will
        continue to gently, respectfully request that community members
*think*
        before pressing that "Send" key, and ask themselves if the
message is
        really something the whole list (or even a significant fraction)
will
        benefit from reading.

        Shavua tov,

        Joel