[meteorite-list] Gotta love freedom of speech

From: Rob McCafferty <rob_mccafferty_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:00:34 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <790177.89682.qm_at_web55208.mail.re4.yahoo.com>

I go away for a couple of weeks and suddenly I have to spend nearly an hour deleting vitriol.
While I do not agree with any form of censorship in a public forum, with that liberty comes responsibility. A community can only exist while people benefit from it.
It is important that fraud is identified and information about discoveries, expeditions and so on are fabulous but when we descend into abuse we waste many combined hours of list members as they are forced to either read or delete it.
Diamonds are difficult to find because they are buried in so much crap. This list sometimes becomes analogous to that.

Yes it's ironic that I put this out as a general mail (this time... public apologies to Eric, to whom I sent my first mail on this subject in error making it seem like I was having a go at him)
However, I will happily take a PRIVATE beating for expressing my views. Bless freedom of speech and expression

Rob


      
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