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Re: ABURKE = DELETE
Amen, George!
As one who has been frequently censored and blacklisted by the
minions of those who rule this country, I say "No censoring!"
BUT....I do not appreciate it when good honest list members continue
to try to engage A Burke, thus falling into his trap. I routinely
delete all ABurke postings without opening them; but I feel my time
is WASTED when I open a rejoinder to his nonsense posted by somebody
else (because the rejoinder bears the original subject title, with no
mention of ABurke).
Please, friends, do not waste our time and yours by replying to this
provocateur. Just DELETE
Cheers,
Pete Farruggio
At 04:13 AM 11/5/2007, you wrote:
In a message dated 11/4/07 6:13:53 PM, Cbgord@aol.com writes:
<< However I object to blaming this problem we have as an online community
on
our list administrator and attacking him for "sitting on his can" and doing
no
work. That's not the problem. We simply have not taken up this issue up in
such a way as to even approach a collective decision (however we try to do
that) on what we want to do about this problem other than grouse about it or
repeatedly advise each individual subscriber to delete his posts. >>
11/5/07
I agree with Craig.
For the past five or six years, I've now and then wrote the above in a
Subject line.
Once a new person here is predicatable, then the rest of us can either
engaged him or ignore him (as I advise and choose to). Every list
and blog I know of
has one or two snipers going after the essence of the list or blog. I think
some of them are paid to do that kind of work, because it wastes
peoples' time.
Others just do it out of cookiness.
But there is no reason to demand that the people who have supported this list
for the past decade. We began here in 1999 after I was suspended from my
teaching job in Chicago and sued for a million dollars for publishing CASE in
Substance. It's better to suffer a few fools than to lose the value
of the list's
openness.
I recall, years ago, there was a person here for a time who has a theory
about property rights and government that was based on some kind of
equity for all
"Inhabitants." At first, the posts were reasonable, then they swept out into
la la land. The only mistake made here (in my opinion) was that she
was exiled
from the list, rather than ignored.
Having been censored on another list that's being promoted from the other
side of this debate, I also know that those who don't take a very
broad view of
the First Amendment here may ultimately be sorry.
As to the personal attacks on Monty, he's faced down far harsher. The ten
seconds it takes to DELETE materials is worth what is provided when
that's done.
Every few months, if I have the time (and I have a full professional and
personal life, so that's rare) I enjoy reading the posts in question
here. They
give me a read on the one-liners of the other side. Just about every idiot
talking point is there, almost as if Karl Rove's DNA was in full view here.
I like that. It's like having the enemy's battle plans in front of you the
day before the fight starts.
George N. Schmidt
Editor, Substance
www.substancenews.net
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