================================================ Subject: Re: Digest - 7 Apr 2002 to 8 Apr 2002 From: "CARMELLA CHIFFON" To: Date: Mon 8 Apr 2002 23:42:10 -0700 ================================================ I registered for this list when I signed on the Creednet.bb and that was on October 12, 1999, only after a lot of reading and finally decided to join both. At that time this list was a pretty good group of people some of which are still here. We shared our concert experiences and thoughts on the songs and the band. There were a few disagreements but usually it stayed between the two people involved..and when it involved more than two people it was a discussion and people shared their opinions and everyone was fine. This is a discussion list and people should be able to discuss things concerning the main subject in the list title..CREED discussion list. That changed a little as some of us met and really became good friends and sometimes got off topic and even then if the message was Not Creed Related there was an (NCR) put into the subject line so that people who didn't want to read something unrelated to Creed didn't have to and just deleted it. It did get really bad for a while and people were just trashing each other and crapping all over Creed and their fans and it eventually led to more arguments and people got tired of reading and unsubscribed. I have read the list from time to time and I still do post once in a great while if i see something interesting to reply to. Since it has become moderated I still don't see much of a difference..there aren't as many arguments and things of that nature as there have been in the past. The size of the digest itself has gone down and I think that's because of people just unsubscribing. I used to get a list in the 365k range for one day and now it's like 60-80k. I am proud to be an american and to have my freedom and rights and am very thankful for it:) But when we talk about freedom of speech and freedom of the press it too whether we like it or not has to be moderated to an extent. I mean when I sign on to aol I see the headlines that say something about child-porn sites and I think it's so disgusting and wrong and I don't agree with it, I think it should be stopped. But won't these people then turn to their 'rights' and say well I have the right to be sick if I want to it's in the first amendment. Of course most of you I HOPE all of you will agree that the people doing these types of things shouldn't be allowed to do them just because of their rights.. I know that flamming someone's post on here isn't anywhere near child porn sites, but it's kind of the same concept I mean where should the limit be? What one person finds offensive someone else might enjoy. Some people had no problem with the crap said on here and continued to post and others got offended and left. Both sides were exercising their rights.. So I guess since this list is owned they feel that they have the right to decide on what should be allowed and what shouldn't so we got a moderator. One-sided or not we have one and I don't think Wind-up's going to stop moderation of this list just because people don't like who the moderator decides to, well, moderate. So I don't know how many yahoo groups and other clubs people have created concerning Creed (I would imagine a LOT) but I guess if you want to discuss topics without a "moderator" then you should go sign up:) Crystal:) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ To unsubscribe or change your preferences for the Creed-Discuss list, visit: http://www.winduplist.com/ls/discuss/form.asp