Fw: WOW!

["Kathleen Pasquale" <klpasquale@email.msn.com>]

Thought it only fair that this list got the explanation also.

klp
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave <dave@thewho.net>
To: Members of <oddsandsods@thewho.net>
Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 12:53 PM
Subject: WOW!


>Ok well I guess the last poster was right the chat room is closed. This
>just in from Pete himself:
>
>
>Chat Room Behaviour - Pete & Matt
>
>Dear Chat Room contributors,
>
>Rich Weiner (White Fang) has been removed from the Chat Room at my request.
>I had a little 'conversation' with him and like so many before me have
>realised that there is no way to reason with him. He seems to want a
certain
>list of technical and credit restitution's to be carried out, according to
a
>court he himself has set up, with him as judge.
>Anyone who disagrees gets treated to something like the Spanish
>Inquisition, only more pedantic. He has made his points, they may or may
not
>be valid - indeed some of them do seem valid, but I think they are really
>not as important as he makes out. That is my prerogative. He and
>I think differently, that much is clear. But it's not right for me to
>provide anybody with this free and open chat room forum, if when they are
>frustrated in some way they get personal, so childishly insulting
>and so brutal. I seriously believe that Rich Weiner is a clever and sincere
>fellow, and a real fan of the music he listens to. But hasn't he rather
lost
>the point? This is music. It's fun. It's art. It's life.
>Life has glitches.
>
>I'm sorry to have to bar anyone. For your information he is not the first
>person to have been barred and will not be the last. Rich Weiner said in
his
>most recent posting that I can write to him as I know his
>address. He too knows mine. He can still communicate with me directly, and
I
>suppose post our correspondence if he wishes to, but I don't want to take
>part in this e-mail display he loves so much. It's like a
>blood sport.
>
>Rich Weiner also says he has many friends. I hope anyone who feels his
>points are valid will not be too upset to lose this arena for his
>disputations. I understand they can follow his machinations elsewhere.
>
>If anyone cares to make a note of this, before Christmas I will be
available
>on line to talk. The date will posted early next week.
>
>Pete Townshend
>
>The access to the chat room has been changed slightly and no new members
>will be allowed on at present. If your wanting to join please bear with us.
>The reason for this is to give us time to go through the existing members
as
>it's obvious that certain people are logged on under various guises. I'm
>sorry if some of you feel this is censorship in any way. None of us like to
>be censored but having that freedom also carries a lot of individual
>responsibility. I believe that responsibility has been lacking in a number
>of the posts. In future the posts will be removed, together with the user,
>if they are offensive. I'm particularly sorry for this as I really felt
this
>facility was a way of the fans to communicate with Pete and vice versa. I
>hope we can get back to that.
>
>Matt
>
>http://www.petetownshend.net
>
>