Re: [ga-abuse] quoting banned members' comments

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@Alvestrand.no>]

At 20:02 03.05.2001 -0400, babybows.com wrote:
>For your consideration... I have noticed on several occasions that messages
>from individuals that are banned from the list come to be quoted by other
>list members in their correspondence to the ga-list.   This is a practice
>that should probably be discouraged.  Thoughts?

IMHO:
This should be allowed, but not encouraged.

The reason given in the original "censorship" debate is that we want to 
suspend members, not opinions; if a sensible, reasonably couched argument 
is brought forward by a suspended member, and another member wants to bring 
this to the GA, forwarding should be legal.

On the other hand, the forwarding member bears full responsibility for the 
words so quoted; if he forwards an insult or irrelevancy, HE gets the 
appropriate action.