[blindlaw] Request for laptop during essay section denied

[David Andrews]

I understand your frustration with non-legal answers.  And ... your 
plea is basically a good one.  However, as the list owner, and 
moderator, I will ask one question and make one statement.  First, 
how would you propose I restrict the list to lawyers and legal 
types?  Should you send me a copy of your diploma?

secondly, some legal types here have and do ask technical questions 
-- partially setting the tone for the list.

David Andrews

At 11:40 PM 6/14/2009, you wrote:
>Bryan,
>
>You really need to learn a little tact.  She was looking for a work-around
>to an accommodation issue, not a tech solution to what she needed.
>
>Frankly, I am getting really tired of the non-attorney participants on this
>list chiming in on law (or bar exam) issues.  Is this or is it not a list
>for blind lawyers and law related to blind related issues?  If so, why are
>the attorneys (or law students) on this list constantly assaulted with
>flaming comments that neither answer legal questions nor promote the
>practice of law with blind attorneys?  Over the past few weeks, I have
>exercised my delete key more often than in the past due to the high email
>traffic related neither to the practice of law nor to legal issues related
>to blind plaintiffs/defendants.
>
>I respectfully ask that this loosy-goosy monitoring of this list serve be
>tightened.  I am frankly tired of receiving emails containing flames from
>non-attorneys discussing non-legal topics.  It is a waste of time and an
>annoyance.  I, as a practicing attorney, am less inclined to post a query to
>this list because I don't have the time or patience to deal with the replies
>coming from judgmental, non-legal participants in this list.
>
>Either blind attorneys/law students have a forum on blindnet, or they do
>not.
>
>Craig
>
>
>Craig Borne
>Baltimore, Maryland
>"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial
>appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in
>defense of custom."  --Thomas Paine, Common Sense