Rule of order for dot operators?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
<PointedEars at web.de> wrote:
> And who appointed you moderator?  I would not mind if you *asked* people
> publicly for politeness as I do that myself sometimes, but I do mind the
> overall tone of your off-topic comments, your apparently trying to dictate
> what people are allowed to say here.  If that’s the way this newsgroup
> works, I am off here.  (But I seriously doubt it.)  Because that is _not_
> how Usenet is supposed to work.

Usually, the people who threaten to leave are the ones we will least
miss. Go ahead, leave if you don't like Ned asking you to be more
polite.

ChrisA