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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Clayton Fiske wrote: > Fair enough. I agree with the idea in spirit. However, care must be > taken to define acceptable criteria. Oh, absolutely. Escalation is not something that should be taken lightly. e.g. for MAPS, escalation was (is?) only used as a last resort. > I think the concerns here (at > least my concerns) are that a) some organizations do it before exhausting > other avenues, and b) the avenues for removal from such listings can > be difficult to nonexistent (as is the case with SPEWS, from the sound > of it). Agreed. > I think one must be cautious to avoid seeking vengeance on something > whose mere existence bothers them, Yes. There are well-documented cases of people getting into trouble when they let their personal opinions and emotions get in the way of running such a list. > Agreed. However, my impression from the initial post(s) in this thread > is that the specific list(s) in question have not been doing this. Yup. I think we have to be careful not to let this thread go completely off-topic. I think I'm going to do a little more research before posting further on the topic, though. As I said, I've never been in a situation where I have to ask SPEWS to delist me. -- Steve Sobol, CTO JustThe.net LLC, Mentor On The Lake, OH 888.480.4NET - I do my best work with one of my cockatiels sitting on each shoulder - 6/4/02:A USA TODAY poll found that 80% of Catholics advocated a zero-tolerance stance towards abusive priests. The fact that 20% didn't, scares me...
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