Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Jerry Holmaas" <jholmaas AT aflc.org>]

A sincere thanks you to the B-Hebrew moderators for disabling Lloyd Barre's 
membership.  I commend you all for your tolerance-- it goes well beyond what 
I have.  
Shalom,
Jerry Holmaas
OT and Hebrew professor
AFLC Schools
Minneapolis, MN 

-----Original Message-----
From: b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org 
[mailto:b-hebrew-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Yigal Levin
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:23 AM
To: l_barre AT yahoo.com; b-Hebrew
Subject: [b-hebrew] Announcement from the moderators

Lloyd -

When you began posting on this list about a month ago, your posts raised some 
eyebrows. One of our co-moderators recalled that you had been banned from the 
list some time ago - a step that is only taken in the most extreme cases of 
constant breaking of list rules. We decided to give you the benefit of the 
doubt. You were warned several times and finally put on moderation, but you 
seemed to just barely be toeing the line, so despite repeated requests by 
quite a few list members, we allowed most of your posts through, even when we 
totally disagreed with their content. Even when you did post messages that 
were off-topic for the list, we ended the entire thread, rather than exercise 
our prerogative of "censoring" just your posts.
However this time, by personally attacking one of the co-moderators, you have 
totally crossed the line. The moderators have unanimously decided to disable 
your membership in B-Hebrew and ask that you kindly refrain from signing up 
in the future.



Respectfully,



The B-Hebrew moderators


----- Original Message -----
From: "LM Barre" <l_barre AT yahoo.com>
To: "b-Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 4:37 AM
Subject: [b-hebrew] George Athas is arbitrary--Call for list considerationand 
response


>
> 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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