[Imc-sydney] Meaning of "control" and removing shit

Tue Apr 22 05:48:24 UTC 2008

Good job Diet! Keep up the great work. 
Perhaps you could find a TAFE course in advanced internet operation.
I am not much good myself, having to learn by trial and error, and then try and teach others (Ed!) and also am a bit
timid to ask for help lest people think I am an idiot. 

Pye

> 
> -   one who regulates or controls.
> 
> Isn't that precisely what all of us with editorial power do? I can't with 
> any stretch of the imagination see any reason to take offence at the word.
> 
> Not even with my fairly extensive experience of the behaviour of these 
> particular controllers could I have "known that it would be provocative and
> possibly start a flame war". Yes, I do know that they hate it being 
> mentioned at all that they have any kind of power - I just can't understand 
> why.
> 
> And yes, I have already happily removed and will continue to remove "the 
> shit" off the newswire and am much relieved that that's OK at least by you, 
> having had no response from anyone else.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Diet
> 
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> > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:35:45 +1000
> > From: "diet simon" <diet_simon at bigpond.com>
> > Subject: [Imc-sydney] Am I within my rights?
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> > Please see 
> > http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/activists-trying-set-second-imc-germany-dispute-controllers#comment-74352
> >
> > I don't want our Sydney IMC space to be contaminated by my dispute with 
> > people running IMC Germany. The dispute can run its course in other 
> > channels accessible to anyone interested.
> >
> > So in future I intend to use my editorial power to remove anything about 
> > this dispute from our site.
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> > Sydney IMC users, please let me know through our discussion list whether 
> > you think that's OK.
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> > Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:22:04 +1000
> > From: Cameron Gregg <cam at earthanarchy.org>
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> > diet simon wrote:
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> >> Please see
> >> http://sydney.indymedia.org.au/story/activists-trying-set-second-imc-germany-dispute-controllers#comment-74352
> >>
> >>
> >> I don't want our Sydney IMC space to be contaminated by my dispute
> >> with people running IMC Germany. The dispute can run its course in
> >> other channels accessible to anyone interested.
> >>
> >> So in future I intend to use my editorial power to remove anything
> >> about this dispute from our site.
> >>
> >> Sydney IMC users, please let me know through our discussion list
> >> whether you think that's OK.
> >>
> >> Diet
> >
> > I don't think you should have posted that story to begin with,
> > particularly with 'the controllers' bit in the title. Whether the title
> > is fair or not, you should have known that it would be provocative and
> > possibly start a flame war.
> >
> > Yeah, keep all that shit off the newswire.
> >
> > I notice you're still posting to the resolve list yet you've put nothing
> > on your wiki page.
> >
> >
> > Cam
> >
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