I have no idea why Joe Green was excommunicated, but then
I have no idea why anybody would be excommunicated. I
mean, come on, nobody has delete keys? No one can filter
messages?
Bah. Humbug.
Hal
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On Dec 18, 2007, at 5:50 AM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> Joe Green has been removed from the POETRYETC list. Notification has
> been
> sent.
>
> I do not think I have to justify the present decision. As I said in my
> previous mail, several members b/c-ed asking for the removal of Joe
> Green.
> Since the question was held b/c I will not mention the names of the
> said
> contributors.
>
> As I also said, the decision is not mine because I do not like to
> have the
> power of death or of life on people, especially if they are adults.
>
> As the co-manager of this list, I highly praise contributions based on
> poetry, reviews, links related to poetry and discussions on poetry.
> It is
> true that this is Poetryetc which means there is an ETC, but it is
> also true
> that the root, the leading word is POETRY.
>
> On the other hand, and I am suggesting, could not this ETC be arts,
> Arts in
> general, movies, videos, music, visual art, digital art, any kind of
> Art.
> Are there any other topics the members would like to discuss in a
> constructive way? As poets I think that we want to improve, why not
> make of
> this space an important reference for all?
>
> I had to update my resume this morning and realized _once again_ the
> enormous amount of poetry published out there. Why don't members
> read and
> share what is interesting and published online, for example? I
> bumped into
> Jacket, Black Box, The Argotist Online, Big Bridge, University sites,
> Publications, there is so much that I feel dizzy.
>
> I hope I will have an interesting feedback and I also remind
> everyone that
> as a rule once a member is not on the list please avoid any comments.
>
> With my best wishes, serving Poetryetc,
>
> Anny Ballardini
> co-manager
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