On 6 Apr 2001, at 19:15, Dampha Kebba wrote:

> Mr. Camara, thanks for your response. With all due respect to you, I do not
> think that the sequence of events went the way that you narrated. Correct me if
> I am wrong, but I think Jaiteh sent a mail to G_L at 13:01 admonishing Prof.
> Assan for his mail. Then according to the mail Prof. Assan submitted to G_L,
> originating from Jaiteh to the List Managers and Assan, Jaiteh did not privately
> admonish Assan until 13:11; ten minutes later. I might be missing something
> here. But from my vantage point, Jaiteh took it upon himself to protest for
> Kebba Jobe and threatened to 'delist' Assan.

Mr. Dampha, I never thought about the sequence of Mr. Jaiteh's mails because I
did not think that it was relevant. I tried to point out that the mail sent by
Mr. Jaiteh to the List managers was also sent to Assan (Ebou Jagne) and this is
what Ebou sent to the list.

I have to admit that I am not reading ALL mails to the list. I still have 396
unread mails in a folder waiting to be read. If you feel that you have been
offended by Kebba Jobe in one or more of his mails then you are welcome to send
me the said mail and I shall write to him and ask him to apologize. However, I
have seen that you have responded to him in a matured manner as usual. Keep it
up.

>
> I am no computer wiz but I can figure enough to know that you cannot censor
> messages as they come in from active subscribers. What you can do as List
> Managers, is what Jaiteh did to Assan. You will apply your so-called rules
> inconsistently hoping that people will lose their tempers and voluntarily
> 'delist' themselves or say things that we might all regret.

Have you ever heard of moderated lists? Gambia-L can be turned into one with
just one command from the List Owners. This will mean that all postings will
first be sent to the list Owners who would then approve by an "OK" command to
let the mail go through to the subscribers. This is what is called CENSURE and
I don't think that should be done.

Personally, I don't think that the list managers should be seen police men and
women. We should all be responsible of the smooth running of the list and agree
to disagree.


Thanks for the reply.

Momodou Camara

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