I agree, Andrew.
Having been a member of the list for some months (since April, I think), I
have often felt that it is not worth the effort to seriously engage in
threads if you have to fight off the pastings if people disagree with you.
I used to work for an ALP politician and suggest that the infamous labor
unionists/faction thugs are pussycats compared to some members of poetryetc!
Anyway, I feel that something has changed (I don't know what - it just seems
friendlier) and I look forward to being more active.
Cheers, everyone.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 10:39 AM
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Subject: Re: Moving On or A Code of Practice?
Chris HE wrote:
>The list is sometimes forthright and challenging; but never threatening,
gratuitous or prejudiced; and suggesting that poets here are behaving in
this manner seems misjudged and, to be honest, quite offensive.<
I also have been a member of this list for a long time, but recently I have
been tempted to drop away because soooo many messages and their authors
have been offensive and boring in the extreme. The tone of voice of some
messages has simply been very childish, and these participants began to
take over valuable air space. When you receive 50 messages and only delight
in two or three of them it makes you wonder why you're on the list. I stuck
on the list because I am a friend of John's and I expect the yobbos to tire
of their games and go away, leaving a happy band of us cyber-wits to
discuss poetry, poetics and publishing.
I might also add that I often wonder, in the big wide wonderful world, if
growing up number six in a big family wasn't a good grounding for life.
Little spats seem to come and go all the time, so you learn to ride out the
storms, and revel in the calms. Ditto this channel.
I'm sticking in, and appreciating a change in the weather.
Andrew
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