Re: [Leica] LUG web space project

[Michael Leitheiser <flyh2onospam@worldnet.att.net>]

At last, a little reality.  Everyone should read this again.

At 08:21 AM 6/19/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Mailing lists are very strange places in which to have fights.  A
>mailing list is a very pure way of communicating ideas, by comparison
>with, say, a group meeting.  A group holding a group meeting can shout
>an individual down, or can threaten physical violence, or can forcibly
>eject an offender; these options are not open to members of the
>leica-users group.
>
>Those of you who are really concerned about Francesco's web site can
>hold all the votes you want, and send all of the messages you want
>deploring whichever side in the debate you wish; if the party you are
>deploring does not give in, you haven't done much of anything except
>blow smoke.
>
>None of you can stop Francesco from registering whatever domain name he
>wants that isn't already taken, unless a court agrees that it violates
>your trademark.  He can't keep you from doing the same.  (Visit
><http://www.internic.net>; registering a domain name costs US$70.)  None
>of you can stop Francesco from posting images volunteered by members of
>the Leica-users group on a web site.  All of you are free to establish
>your own web site to do the same.  None of you (with the exception of
>Brian, the list owner) can throw Francesco or Danny off this mailing
>list.  You are all free to start your own mailing lists from which you
>may exclude whomever you wish.
>
>Under these circumstances, the policy that makes the best sense is a
>recognition of the limits of one's own power over others, and tolerance
>of mutual differences.
>
>-Patrick Sobalvarro
>
Mike Leitheiser

"When the trout are lost, smash the state."
                                   Tom McGuane