Have not posted forever, but - what a bloody silly outcome. Several people
post b/c - Joe goes. Several people post f/c - Joes still goes. Either what
was said b/c was heinous, or the air on the list has become rather rarified.
Interesting simultaneous thread on Hardy - a voluminous, versatile and
difficult writer. Hmmm.
Caleb.
On Dec 20, 2007 1:19 AM, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hal's is the only sensible answer, seems like.
>
> Mark, my opinion is that it makes absolutely no difference what people
> think if they don't speak up. they're free to think what they like,
> certainly, but if no one knows about it, it can't be relevant,
> especially in a cooperative, interactive context like this list. we
> should only be interested in the people who have a say AND use it.
> we're not psychic after all (and my 'most' comment was related indeed
> to the people who had/have deigned to reply).
>
> KS
>
> On 19/12/2007, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > Serving the tristate area.
> >
> > Halvard Johnson
> > ================
> > [log in to unmask]
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
> > http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
> > http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
> > http://www.hamiltonstone.org
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
> >
> >
> > 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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