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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