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In article <p4wvhh390z6.fsf@panix7.panix.com>,
Jim Kingdon  <kingdon@panix7.panix.com> wrote:

>> The growing tendency towards rules, rather than guidelines and assumptions
>> that people will be rational and use common sense, is a systemic disease,
>> I'm afraid, not specific to any particular section of Usenet.

>Agreed that it is a disease.

Well, we'll initiate a course of treatment, starting with the gentler
remedies and working up, if necessary, to whatever level we need to
work up to.

>I'm trying to serve as a voice of reason (as I understand it) here in
>us.* but this is one of those tricky things (especially when
>guidelines and assumptions appear not to be working).

In the Beginning was the Deed.

>Henrietta is more oriented towards persuasion and reasoning with
>people than may be apparent, actually.  

She is welcome to demonstrate this at her convenience.

>                                      She just tends to get off on
>the wrong foot with people when she is trying to clean up a us.*
>newsgroup (or whatever the right term is for her current attitude
>towards us.politics, and her attitude towards us.legal a few weeks or
>months back).

Well, what can I say to this? I wait to hear what Henrietta is going
to say.

j.