On 1 May 2002 at 15:50, M.B.Krubally wrote: > What type of forum do we have here? It is becoming a habit to end every debate > topic with a fight. The style of debate on this forum is wrong and sickening, > and the idea of digging into people's personal lives looking for dirt to end a > loosing debate is UNCALLED FOR. Lately, the good debaters and some smart writers > have resorted to personal attacks. I really hope that we will be gentler towards > each other in person than we currently are in cyberspace. It is almost becoming > disgraceful and a waste of time to be a part of this so-called "Bantaba". > > Gambia (The smiling Coast Folks), we are disgracing ourselves and loosing a lot > of respect out there. I suggest we stop the personal attacks, or use private > e-mail addresses if we have to be nasty with each other. List managers can set any individual subscriber's postings sent to list owner for review before the mail goes through or another option where a user may not post to list. In both cases the user will receive all mails from the L but cant post. Doing any of these will defeat the purpose of Gambia-L. We expect members to be matured enough and that they do not misuse the forum by slandering and personal attacks. Below is a mail sent behind the scenes to one of the subscribers from a list manager and we can all learn something from it. -------------- Begin quote --------------------- "I guess we don't need to bring the fight or quarrel to the Management. What we are here to do is to resolve the problems that arise out of subscribers intolerance and the inability to discuss fully without using abusive languages. I wish we won't have to go through that but as you can see dealing with adults can be very difficult. Especially when one believe that they are mature enough to discuss as intellectuals and it turns out the other way. We hate the job of having to monitor what people say or write. We hate the fact that people will call on us to bring back civility to the L. What we will love to see is that people discuss and bring in all their experiences, information, expertise to the L ,where Gambians young and old will learn from it and be proud of us and themselves. I guess you've made your point clear and we should move on from there. You should also remember that we won't gain anything from exchanging abuses with each other. Personally it can be shocking to me, when i read such articles written by educated Gambians. What matters to all is the betterment of our country despite our differences. And as List managers a forum where people can discuss and share ideas without hindrance. We cherish the contributions of all Gambians and we are not hear to take sides." -------- End of quote ------------- regards, Momodou Camara>>>\\\///\\\///\\\<<<<<< "Any one man, woman or child can be what they want to be; but be the right thing." -----Burning Spear------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To unsubscribe/subscribe or view archives of postings, go to the Gambia-L Web interface at: http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/gambia-l.html To contact the List Management, please send an e-mail to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~