Re: [Paddlewise] Misuse of List? (was: VCP hatch cover)

At 11:35 AM 5/14/2002 -0700, Dave Kruger wrote:
>I'd say, let's not hard-time Scherrer, and let's use the back channel in the
>future.  The list owner should chime in here somewhere.

My mistake for forwarding the two messages earlier today, I should have 
left the thread dead...  This is my response that went out yesterday to the 
first 3 involved in the thread.

 >I took Steve's response as a borderline response.  The question was to the
 >mailing list in general.  The answer was specific to someone who had an issue
 >getting equipment.  Steve didn't mention anything else they sell.
 >
 >Wes mentioned GRO - without any idea if they had any in stock.
 >
 >I think it was fair to answer in public, particularly since there appears 
to be >supply issues, for at least one participant.
 >
 >If it was a common item, a public response would have been inappropriate.
 >
 >I do know that 2 of my local shops have VCP hatches in stock, so I 
don't >consider this to have been an obscure request, which would be more 
worthy of >a public response.  As such it was a borderline call for being a 
public response, >from a vendor.
 >
 >I like the list to do it's best to run itself, I've got more than enough 
to do without
 >micromanaging the list.   Please avoid anything that could be construed 
as >borderline, we've got lots of vendors on the list I really don't want 
to filter posts, >there is more than enough of that already(in particular 
unedited posts).
 >
 >kirk
 >(backchannel, where I feel this discussion belongs)
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