ASOFT policy
13-Jun-94 16:02:47
Sb: #107419-ASOFT policy
Fm: Roger Danielsen 70323,3034
To: Joe MacRae 76702,1302
Joe,
Thank you for your and everyone else's response. I could start with why was
such a serious message regarding product support and censorship moved to the
idle chitchat section. Censorship is far too serious of an issue to be called
idle chitchat.
Evan said none of my messages had been offensive enough to move, but yet it was
moved to what I believe is section 0, where only certain people have access.
(And no, I have not figured out any way to get access to that.) I downloaded
the original message, Gary's response, and 2 or 3 additional replies, which had
nothing to do with offering assistance. I first of all tried to mitigate the
original writer's frustration, tell him he may possibly have a point, and offer
my assistance. All you guys have been around here long enough to know that
sometimes by the time the users get to Compuserve, their frustration level has
reached the point of an enraged postal worker.<g> And if you don't give them
the ability to blow at least a little bit of steam, you could end up with some
of the same ramifications. (Let's hope not.)
Now you say the message was not deleted, but moved. So thus, there's no
censorship. If you take it out of the newspaper, and put it in a secret file,
it's still censorship. Now, perhaps, those messages that were not offering
assistance, only personal criticisms, didn't belong in the thread, but why did
the entire thread disappear, including my message, which had a different header
completely? And I can tell you from personal experience I've personally been
flamed much worse than anything I read in that thread. Why the sudden interest?
Thanks.
Roger D.