[Slowhand] Just for the record

[Fabio Dwyer]

Hi people,

one of our buddies caught me out of the list asking me about my last post, 
my personal reflections about SDigest and stuff. I made fun out of the fact 
that once I got suspended by Dave Hillmann for being not-so-kind with other 
member. My recall of this incident was with my tongue firmly against my 
cheek, but maybe he/she (I won't tell who, but I know you're reading this, 
you know who you are:-) misunderstood me.

I'm not the inventor or the pioneer of name calling on the web... My 
suspension time (deserved!) happened in a bad week for me - well, everybody 
have that day(s) when even your dog doesn't recognizes you. There was this 
member, a few years ago, who spent a lot of this time telling how Clapton 
was so weak these days, how Jeff Beck could "destroy" him onstage, etc. etc. 
Of course I can deal with that, no problem, I didn't even answered to any of 
this musical-offensive topics. The problem is that it went through an 
abusive way, the guy wrote that Clapton was a pedophile - mentioning his 
marriage with Melia, 300 years younger than him and stuff, and it really 
pissed me off -as some other members too. He definitely threw the water out 
of the jar and I couldn't stand that -remember, I was in a baaad, baaad 
week... Maybe I should respond him privately, I was wrong. Then after a 
couple of days, another suspended member (for the same reason) contacted me 
to tell that this guy was a 16 yrs old kid and it really made sense, all the 
childish stuff he was writing, that went way beyond musical opinion, it was 
getting really offensive. So I apologized Mr. Hillman and the whole list, 
and that's it. It happened ONCE with me. After that, everyone who had an 
argue with me - it happened once or twice - had it privately. I'm a polite, 
well-educated person as the average member, as many friends I have here can 
attest. I support democracy, but with a fair play, a wise use of words.

As Hillman said, we don't need him babysiting anyone, we had the freedom of 
speech and for every right we have, there's a due also, so let's keep 
opinions in a civilized level, not take it too seriously - I'm with AG on 
that, it's just a discussion group on the web, cool, nice, but let's not 
make all this stuff such a big deal, ok?

Cheers,
Fabio



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