Where did you two get the spooks and corporate pragmatism bits on which you
take your stand? Hackers and crackers don't care whether we're in the poetry
biz or any other line (pardon me), just so long as we amount to a
significant number and can be counted on to sit like ducks.
Online discussion lists aren't so much private or public as they're
Net-cultural. Which isn't to argue for keeping the archives closed, but to
urge that we keep our selves up to speed on the state of play in our virtual
neighborhood. Nobody's using typewriters for this ongoing conversation,
after all, and packet sniffers would be the first to applaud our "spirit of
free discussion."
Candice
on 8/10/01 7:52 PM, Mark Weiss at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> My stand exactly. Hard to know when it's long enough, tho. Maybe two
> weeks--till the end of US school holidays, when there'll be fewer idle
> hands for the devil to play with.
>
> Mark
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> At 09:52 AM 8/11/2001 +1000, you wrote:
>> My strong feeling still is that the archives should, after a period, be
>> re-opened. I am very uncomfortable with any permanent battening-down of
>> the list, which I feel is against the spirit of free discussion, and I
>> think on this we should bite the bullet and say we are for the free
>> rather than actions based on fear and defensiveness, or on the logic of
>> corporate pragmatism.
>>
>> We are after all a community of poets, not of spooks or businesspersons.
>> Or at least, I hope so!
>>
>> Best wishes to all
>>
>> Alison
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