On Mon, 28 Aug 2000 13:09:02 -0500, Chris Huff <chr### [at] maccom>
wrote:

>In article <me8lqs4e1kvbn0d7163hdtlqstljujd77v@4ax.com>, IMBJR 
><imb### [at] imbjrcom> wrote:
>
>> Is Chris Huff an elder? If he is then he should speak up and proclaim
>> it. There's no pointing trying to slap a wrist if you don't have the
>> pandy-bat.
>
>I *have* said before that I am a member of the TAG and pointed you to 
>the TAG web site(it is even included in my signature). I have also 
>pointed to the official documents in 
>povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions several times.
>Since you seem not to have read those, I will quote the relevant portion:
>
>"TAG members are not members of the POV-Team. But they are, however, an 
>official conduit between us and the outside world. They have direct 
>access to all members of the POV-Team. They have the right to speak on 
>our behalf on the POV news server and on any official mailing lists 
>that we set up for this purpose. Not everything they say will be 
>official ; only when they sign it as such. They can still act 
>'themselves' and have their own opinions at all other times."
>
>I suppose this makes me an "elder", if not part of the "heirarchy".

I stand corrected. Thanks.

>
>
>> Plus - and I may be wrong on this one, so correct me if I am - I have 
>> yet to see anything that says "Thou Shalt Not Flood the POV 
>> newserver".
>
>People asked you to not flood with large numbers of posts. That should 
>have been enough.
>Since the initial postings, you have done pretty well in this. :-)

Cheers. 

>
>
>> In fact Ken in povray.off-topic stated:
>> "Your material was on topic and in no way in violation of this news
>> servers policies."
>
>Your posts were not off-topic or directly against any official rules. In 
>fact, some of them seemed quite imaginative, creative, and well done, 
>though somewhat lacking in explanation. However, the way you posted them 
>doesn't fit with the customs that the users of this server have become 
>used to. There have been in-depth discussions in the past about the best 
>way to do things, what is considered acceptable, and what is considered 
>abuse. While not all of these are written, official rules, it is simply 
>polite to not insist on going against them.
>
>
>> Well, this may not be like real Usenet, but if this is were a foreign
>> country, then you would be losing valuable tourist-dollars through
>> displaying of isolationist viewpoints. You would never get new-blood
>> to come and live and work here.
>
>"Isolationist" is about as far from an accurate description of this 
>server as you can get! The people here just don't take well to 
>continued, intentional rudeness. We are very open and helpful to new 
>users or visitors. Your initial posting would have been regarded as a 
>mistake due to ignorance of how things on these groups are usually done 
>and it would have been forgiven and forgotten immediately, even by those 
>to whom it caused problems. However, your actions and postings since 
>then don't encourage good-will toward you. If you take the time to see 
>"how things are done" here and don't go against that, you will find a 
>very friendly and helpful community. It is *not* that we want everyone 
>to be identical and discourage individuality, it is just that we have 
>found a middle ground that everyone can live with.

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