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  • From: fred putnam <fred.putnam AT gmail.com>
  • To: dwashbur AT nyx.net
  • Cc: b-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] George Athas is arbitrary--Call for list consideration and response
  • Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 07:28:27 -0500

Thanks, George, for closing this.

Peace.

Fred

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 6:24 AM, <dwashbur AT nyx.net> wrote:

> George works hard to moderate this forum in an even-handed way, and he does
> an
> excellent job. If you don't like the way he's moderating, you can always
> leave. In fact,
> maybe that's the best idea I've heard all day.
>
> Dave Washburn
>
> On 9 Feb 2009 at 18:37, LM Barre wrote:
>
> > The co-moderator, George Athas, is arbitrary is dictating what is
> appropriate to this forum. If he doesn't like it, he closes the thread.
> All of my posts have to do with the literature of the Hebrew Bible which he
> himself has stated is the subject of this forum. I submit that Mr. Athas is
> simply indulging in censorship based on his personal preferences without
> regard to the subject matter of the b-Hebrew forum. Certainly the
> authorship of the Pentateuch is a matter related to the study of the
> literature of the Hebrew Bible. And yet he sees fit to close the thread,
> and without explanation. Mr. Athas seems intent of preserving some sort of
> self-styled status quo and does not support intellectual debate and
> cooperative learning unless it fits his personal agenda. I do not hear from
> the other moderators. Its is always Athas that jumps on my posts as somehow
> "inappropriate." I appeal to the list members to withstand this arbitrary
> censorship
> > of one of the moderators. If I am in violation of some rule of
> b-Hebrew, let that rule be cited and defended by all the moderators and the
> list owner, who, by the way, is non-responsive to my questions. Athas
> wastes your with his arbitrary and over restrictive, self-invented rules of
> personal "protocol."
> >
> >
> > Lloyd Barré, PhD
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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