Dear cris
Sometimes (don't I know it) being a listowner is entering a lose/lose
situation, to use a particularly infelicitous turn of phrase. And
you have all my support for your efforts to run the list. Don't
flagellate yourself too badly; you have been doing your task in good
faith, and I think that is clear to everybody, despite all the
frustrations here of late.
That the list has been a hostile environment lately hardly needs
pointing out again. And yes, it's true, women are less likely to
post in such environments, even without what's been an accompaying
misogynism, which has been signal only for not being confined to male
posters. For me, it's been a question of diminishing returns: there
is no point in entering arguments which are not going to prove
fertile in any way. But that has not been the entire tenor of the
list, which perhaps offers some hope.
best
A
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Alison Croggon
Editor, Masthead
http://au.geocities.com/masthead_2/
Home page
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