Sorry, dom
I've just trawled back among the million posts of the last few days and
picked up what you're responding to. I still don't think it has much to do
with this list tho'.
david b
----- Original Message -----
From: "domfox" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:57 PM
Subject: Re: try this for an issue
> The micropolitics of list management are always tricky, and I tend to
think
> the best way is to try not to care to much, and to just desert without the
> slightest hesitation any list that annoys you either by its censoriousness
> or by its apparent lack of discrimination in the matter of
> abusive/unpleasant/inappropriate postings. There are plenty of groups and
> lists out there, and almost none of them has the sort of clout that would
> merit a serious outcry if their moderators started making silly or
> overly-defensive or even downright unfair and moronic decisions. Silliness
> etc. are annoying; but not much more than that, unless the perpetrators
have
> real money and power.
>
> Having said that, I would like to add that I think the listowner's
> objections to the cross-posting of material are a bit specious, and in
this
> case mean that the list is deprived of some really good stuff. Mez and
Alan
> Sondheim both cross-post quite a bit: it's not self-publicizing, or not
just
> that, but rather - to my mind - part of an interest about how already
fairly
> unstable material "plays" or performs (or sits, or stands...) in a variety
> of contexts. Reading one of Alan's posts on Cybermind is different to
> reading more or less exactly the same post on the Buffalo poetics list
(not
> that he posts quite so much to that any more): it's inserted into a
> different conversation. I post, and sometimes though not often cross-post,
> stuff all over the place; it seems natural to me, like telling the same
> anecdote at lots of different parties...
>
> Dom
>
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