Rather childish approach as of me. What should people who liked your reviews
do? Maybe we should stop walking ourside if we meet a jerk on the street?
Maybe we should cease to talk if we are offended anyhow? Be a realist and do
not notice what you do not want to notice. You forget that there's lots of
people on the list who are normal and appreciate idm music news but do not
post much which makes them seem unvisible to you but there are such people.
Alien angry...
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: david turgeon [mailto:eerie@mnemonic.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 8:05 PM
> To: idm@hyperreal.org
> Subject: (idm) bye-bye!
>
>
> on that note, this is my last idm-l message & i'm now unsubscribing!
>
> if a bunch of intelligently written, on-topic, short reviews can manage
> not to welcomed by certain members of this list, then perhaps its
> moderators should seriously question its purpose as an informative list
> & stop misleading new subscribers & clearly state that idm-l is from
> this point onward to be considered mostly an ebay-trader hangout & the
> place where autechre-sniffers meet to discuss hidden tracks & what
> lotion sean & rob use to masturbate on their dsp box.
>
> of course, if the only reason why i'm leaving was that i'm being
> offended by an uneducated comment, you could probably think me a wuss,
> but in fact, the complete lack of INTELLIGENCE displayed on this list in
> the past few months has done its share to offend me, if you ask.
>
> in many a previous thread, a lot of you were quick to dissmiss the word
> 'intelligence' itself as elitist: well, be glad, what you called elitism
> (& which i would term the 'practical arrangement of a group of
> likeminded people') has now turned into a free-for-all mess where every
> passing idiot can irresponsibly claim their right to throw hasty
> comments & petty insults while never adding any pertinent content,
> whereas content is what ANY mailing list (hell, any source of
> information) should be about. but for now i shall resort to the excuse
> of the weak philosophers: 'if the people want it...' & leave it at that.
>
> & to all of those i may have offended during my stint on this list: as a
> co-worker worded the other day, 'it's only words' to which i may
> precise: 'it's only opinion.' all of you who took my little rants as
> face value would do well to go back to watching television where they
> really do want you to believe everything they say.
>
> private replies are welcome & questions will be answered (not that i
> think there's any questions to be asked!). insults will be laughed at &
> then sent to the trash.
>
> have a nice day,
>
> ~ david
>
> ps: i know such a message is ultimately useless & will be regarded if
> anything as primadonnalike or whatnot. what can i say: i do feel
> genuinely mad about a list with so much potential going to shits because
> of certain people not following certain simple, logical, _sensible_
> ethical guidelines & thus i feel it my 'duty' to adress this problem if
> for the last time. a true philosophical idealism in the russellian
> sense, & sue me.
>
> ps2: community is a nice thing, but it will never work without certain
> rules which are mostly common sense. & when certain people choose to be
> above them, that's when policing has to get into the picture & wastes a
> good thing entirely by replacing genuine cooperation with a forced
> submission into following laws.
>
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