Ridecamp: Re: [RC] freedom of speech,,, accusations and Sheath Cleaning

Quoted from Bia's message:
>  I will personally file a complaint with the FCC that will include the 
> list owners name.

Actually I don't believe the FCC has any jurisdiction over things like 
email discussion lists.  They are just a type of mail, electronic in form - 
and the FCC has nothing to do with mail.  Email lists are not for public 
consumption (you have to subscribe) and are not over public airwaves or 
public internet access (you *choose* to subscribe to them!).  So you can 
file a complaint with the FCC but it won't do any good, any more than 
filing a complaint about receiving, opening and reading a letter that *you 
requested be sent to you* would.

This list is not a democracy.  Lists are considered the private property of 
the list owner and in this case it's Steph's party and she makes the 
rules.  She's also the only one who has the right to be an enforcer unless 
she hires other enforcers (generally referred to as list moderators, list 
moms, etc.).  We have been invited to attend Steph's party and we are all 
free to leave if we want.  We can complain to Steph if we don't like the 
conversations but we haven't got the right to censor.  We are of course 
free to "take it outside" if we need to.  But no matter if we think the 
sheath thread is funny or obscene, it's not ours to decide, it's Stephs alone.

By the way, while this list is likely the "premiere" endurance email list 
of the internet, is not an *official* AERC email list, it's not an arm of 
AERC and so it doesn't have to be a PG list.  If there are juniors who read 
this list, it is solely the responsibility of the parents to decide what 
their kids can and can't read, and the parents' responsibility for dealing 
with it if they don't like the content.  However, filing a complaint with 
the FCC just isn't going to work.

My advice to anyone who's upset with RC conversations - use your email 
program's filter functions.  I myself have got some RC senders blocked, and 
if I was sick of the sheath discussion and sick of using the delete key, 
I'd make a filter for the word "sheath" in the subject line and have it 
sent directly to trash.  However, I am pretty amused by all of it and am 
reading every email on the subject.  Some of you crack me up, even if you 
didn't mean to!
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