On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:51 PM, George Oguntunde
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Are you serious?
>
> It is not appropriate to contact people off the list with respect to issues
> posted on the list?
>
> So if someone is interested in a conference posted on the list they are not
> permitted to contact the poster off list?
>
> If someone wishes to thank someone for a posting they cannot do so off list?
>
> I have read the regulations and this draconian rule you claim is not
> mentioned. Please cite it.
>
> How on earth can this be a "radical" and "critical" list if it is forbidden
> to even contact people off list - sounds like FASCISM to me.
Right. The issue clearly isn't whether you contact people off-list,
but how. If you contact people to insult them, for example, then that
steps over a line, and should absolutely be grounds for removal from
the list.
But even your on-list posts--including this one ("FASCISM"?)--put you
awfully close to classic internet troll territory ...
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29>
Bruce
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