I have been observing this interchange with some interest, and while I think you both have raised valid points, I can report that, in my experience, requests from one poster to another to stop posting to them are generally expected to be honored by the moderators - whether right or wrong, I make no judgement here, but I have seen this happen before, albeit not in the crevo context, and most probably in the interest of keeping the peace more than anything else. Therefore, Andrew's request is not unprecedented, and will probably also be expected to be honored.
I do not think that Andrew would claim, though, that such a request should or will function to shield him if he should comment upon Ichneumon's posts or his person or so forth, and so I STRONGLY urge both of you to PRIVATELY contact the moderators, and lay out your cases to them directly, such that you may both obtain a fuller understanding of the boundaries of discourse between the two of you from this point forward - for example, whether Ichneumon can reasonably expect to comment in a general way about Andrew's posts without actually addressing him directly, or whether the contents of his posts are to be considered entirely off-limits. I do not know the answer to this, and nobody but the moderators can provide you with one.
Again, I make no comment upon whether this policy of honoring such requests is right or wrong, nor do I have any idea about the exact details of such things - I merely report that this is the way I have observed it to be. Nothing is likely to be resolved in the current fashion, however, so I again repeat my suggestion that you contact the moderators in private in order to obtain a better idea about their expectations in such cases.
thanks,
g_r
I don't know. The request basically says, "Please! No return fire around my sniper's nest!"
I'll concur. About a year ago, a certain poster posted an ugly column by Roger Ebert, which had been written (and posted) some months before. The interesting thing was that Roger Ebert himself had repudiated the column and apologized thoroughly shortly after publishing it. When I (politely) pointed this out on the thread, the poster went absolutely non-differentiable and--get this--forbade me to reply to any more of "his" threads. He then proceeded to berate me via Freepmail, and became further enraged when I (politely) responded. Next thing I know, I get a Freepmail from JimRob himself asking me not to contact the poster on the forum or via Freepmail.
It may not seem like justice, but actually I was touched by it. Jim knew the score, but he trusted me to swallow my aggravation to keep the peace, and not to bitch about a real unfairness. He physically does not have the time to adjudicate every petty squabble on the forum, and in that case he had an out: he knew that a single word to me would get the matter out of his hair. And it did. (The toughest part is that the poster in question posts so infrequently, I have to remind myself every couple of months what his screen name is. Once I very nearly posted a reply to him by mistake.)
What I'm saying is that the better man will suck it up for Jim's sake. And will everyone please stop pinging him?