Posted by Larry Hoover on January 3, 2004, at 16:35:14
In reply to Re: blocked for 48 weeks, posted by madwand on January 3, 2004, at 15:31:54
> I know this is a highly charged specific case which may sway your opinion in favor of the block, but (as you yourselves argued when Kristen came back under the circumstances in which she did) consider the precedent. The notion of a block for a post from over a month ago is a bit scary.
>
> MichaelI don't see there's the slightest issue of precedent. It would have been tactless (and moot) for Bob to block a dead poster (had that been fact), but upon her resurrection, it was appropriate to "revitalize" all aspects of her posting here.
If all one need do to avoid a block is to fake one's death, I'd hate to think what sort of a precedent *that* would be.
She had the block coming. It came.
Lar
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