I have been a member of law-lib for a long time, well over ten years under a few different email addies. Throughout that time, and especially before he retired, Mr. Huttner was both very helpful and occasionally rude, but his professional help far out weighed his occasional rudeness.
I think it would be unjust to ban Mr. Huttner because of his response to the person who posts as Leslie Germaine, who as best I can tell has not contributed much professional help, unless it has occurred offlist, which could very well be the case.
I am generally opposed to banning people for occasional rudeness, since whenever flame wars erupt it easy to avoid the discussion by deleting the messages. But if action were to be taken, it should be against both participants, not just one.
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From: jcjanes@ucdavis.eduTo: law-lib@ucdavis.eduDate: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 09:13:39 -0800Subject: [LAW-LIB:58035] Inconsiderate and disrespectful list participants
Dear Law-Libbers: I am exhausted and frankly disgusted dealing with unprofessional postings on the law-lib list. It consumes my time to respond to numerous emails from subscribers who want Mr. Huttner removed: subscribers are saying it has gone on long enough, that his postings are disruptive, offensive and beneath the dignity of this list, etc etc, etc. I agree. If anyone has a professional reason why Mr. Huttner should not be removed from the list, please let the list subscribers know now. And do not send your email to me send them to the list so that others can judge if they are valid reasons. I have tried to be fair and patient, and maybe I’m just short on patience today, but help me out here colleagues, because if I do as you ask and remove Mr. Huttner, I do not want to hear about it later. Thanks, Judy
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