Digital BW, The Print

> From: Editor P.O.V. Image Service
>
> I'd also note that I allow you all the freedom you wish (which you
> certainly use) to comment on such issues on my lists.  So, it's more
> than a tad hypocritical for you to be asking me to self-censor here,
> especially by arguing that I would somehow limit your right to comment
> on my lists. As you know, I rarely even clamp down on conversations for
> becoming less than wholly germane to those lists, and in the absence of
> personal attack, I NEVER shut down discussion of, or ban people for
> engaging in germane discussion, even when it's barely tangential.

But I don't WANT to discuss this stuff on your printer-related lists or this
list. And I doubt most other people do, either. It simply divides people
into two camps who wind up not liking each other. While the issues are
important, and I'm sometimes willing to discuss them in other forums, I
regard it as an intrusion when someone brings up an issue that a) produces
deep ideological or philosophical divisions, and b) isn't on-topic for the
list. (The fact that this list is on the internet doesn't make every
internet-related issue on-topic.) While you can do what you want on lists
you moderate, I wish you wouldn't elsewhere.

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Ciao,               Paul D. DeRocco
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