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

[k@widgital.com (Kristy McKee)]

At 09:31 AM 5/4/2001 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote:
>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.

Yes, I think this is the way to handle that ...

The person who posts must be responsible for their posting.

I think we should allow for this behavior, a good example would be:
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-roots/Arc00/msg00070.html
where I posted a long quote (with written permission) from the CEO of New.net.

:)

~k