<VV> It's been fun...

[Marc Marcoulides]

Once in a while it is important to be reminded of what this forum would look like if it were not moderated. 

-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan and Clare Wesson <alan.wesson at atlas.co.uk>
>Sent: Sep 25, 2008 10:28 AM
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: <VV> It's been fun...
>
>Hi folks
>
>I received this message earlier, from a shadowy organisation calling itself 
>'VV-help':
>
>> For the next 30 days all posts from you to the VVs will be reviewed
>> by one of the moderators (VV-help) to make sure they comply with
>> all the rules before they are sent out.  Moderation is not real time and
>> at times it will take up to 6 hours before you will see what you wrote,
>> if it is approved or get a rejection notice.
>> You are not moderated on vv-talk where the majority of your posts
>> belonged.
>
>I accept entirely that I have posted several off-topic posts. However, as I 
>had already told 'VV-help', and had also mentioned to the list, this was 
>because I had been absent from VV for some years, and I had actually 
>completely forgotten about the existence of VV-Talk, I hadn't yet subscribed 
>thereto (and now won't be).
>
>Since I received my earlier reminder, I have not started any new non-Corvair 
>threads, and I have only responded to a small number of messages onlist (and 
>a larger number offlist). Each of my onlist posts has been preceded with a 
>warning that the topic was off-topic and shouldn't be being discussed on VV.
>
>However, for some reason I am being picked on and made an example of (rather 
>than the others who posted and/or replied to the other off-topic posts, 
>principally the Chevy Volt one).
>
>As I object a) to being picked on; and b) to being moderated (I will not be 
>controlled in this way on something that is supposed to be my hobby), I will 
>unsubscribe again forthwith.
>
>I have enjoyed my brief return, but I will not accept being picked on, and I 
>will not submit to heavy-handed and unsubtle moderation. I will submit 
>happily to courteous and tactful moderation, but that clearly isn't the 
>order of the day, so I will get my hat and leave.
>
>Bye bye
>
>Alan 
>
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