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Bob Gonder <notbg@notmindspring.invalid> wrote in message news:<g8iqmvk46g0r4dtj0d7vb0o5ekpo4s3629@4ax.com>...
> zok wrote:
> 
> > _You_ do _not_ own these groups.
> 
> Nor do you, but at least we _repect_ the rules established by those
> who do.
> 
> >Yes, borland/inprise has their own set of guidelines away from Usenet, but
> >these are not engraved in some stone tablet,
> 
> No, we've moved away from stone a couple thousand years ago...Nowadays
> their writ in electrons, and stored at the guidlines url.

Have you ever heard of a metaphor. Many such guidelines (in the usenet
world they are known as FAQs for the most part) are not the complete
be all end all of a ng.
 
> >You have no place to enforce rules you did not create.
> 
> Gee, I guess that means you don't need to do what the nice oficer with
> the blinking lights and the big gun says either.  Not too many cops
> write the laws that they enforce.

But Ed is not an officer.
 
> And you know that Ed didn't have a hand in writing the rules
> because???
> a) You wrote them.
> b) Ed isn't old enought to vote
> c) You just "know"
> 
> Acutally, Team-B is the _only_ Sheriff in these here parts. 

Um, no they are not. They programmers, and participants like anyone
sle. They help with coding a lot and happen to be quite good at it,
which is why Team B was formed, not policing work. Please do not try
to portray them as anything other then they are.

> They are
> _not_ self-appointed vigilantes.  They have been duly elected by the
> owners of the groups. 

Elected to help out, not to be the rent-a-cops you (and I think Ed)
think they are.

>And besides....it is the responsability of
> _every_ citizen to defend the constitution... err, uh, I mean..uphold
> the law.  And if you refuse, there is always rule (notice) #4.

Citizens are not supppost to play cop. they cna always dial 911 but
suppost to try to be a cop.