>From: Penn Jennings <jennings@cyberca.com>
>Date: Wed, 01 Jan 1997 23:38:22 -0500
>At 09:43 PM 1/1/97 -0600, Gene Rackow <rackow@mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
>>The other problem that comes in to play is various "rights" that people think
>>they have. If you leave the position of list maintainer and go into list
>>moderation, which you would be doing if you cut someone from the list for
>>their viewpoint or comments to others on the list, then you become a target
>>of law suites as well.
>I doubt that any court would conclude that any has a RIGHT to be on a list.
>Courts HAVE concluded that list managers have responsiblies to curtail list
>members behavior.
>My point is: As the man in charge you should try to stay out of things.
>However, you do have a responsiblity to sometimes step in and make the hard
>choices.
The list manager has no responsibilities whatsoever for stopping the exchange
of rude e-mail messages between 2 list members. He should not get in the
middle, nor assume that he is capable of changing anyone's behavior. He
certainly should not take it upon himself to examine the contents of the
messages to decide whether or not there is harassment.
If he really feels sympathetic, he could mention that procmail, elm's filter,
and other such programs exist to deal with unwanted mail.
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