Peace be with you,
Kay. Across the wall of the world,
A River sings a beautiful song. It says,
Come, rest here by my side.
-- Maya Angelou
On Fri, 22 May 1998, Mayme Trumble wrote:
> Dear Vision 2020 readers
>
> I made very much the same comment as Kathleen several days ago but my post
> never appeared on the list. I am not sure why. Does anyone have any ideas??
> Maybe I just did not send it correctly but I don't feel this is true. I can
> understand peoples fear of retaliation; but, I still do not take much stock
> in unsigned information. How can you? Anyone can say anything they want
> with no accountability. OH, by the wa, my Eudora email program does not
> have a spell checker. Excuse me.
>
> A police review board sounds good to me. Someone to deal with rumors and
> problems the community experiences seems reasonable.
>
> Mayme Trumble
> maymet@moscow.com
> 883-8321
> Moscow, Id.
>
>
>
> At 3:05 PM -0800 5/21/98, Kathleen Warren wrote:
> >Dear Vision 2020 subscribers:
> >
> >This is from a note on the list May 15:
> >
> >>Many of you have had a lot to say about Mary Jane Gaughan's letter
> >>posted to the web site.
> >Then there is a reference to "America's Most Wanted" to "investigate
> >what was happening here in Moscow." I have searched the archives and saw no
> >previous
> >letters that "many of you" could refer to.
> >Who is Mary Jane Gaughan, and when and where was her letter posted to what
> >Website? There are no Gaughans listed in any of the towns, small or large,
> >in the community phonebook.
> >
> >Up to the last month, Vision2020 has been real people who live in the
> >community, or past residents (than you, Kenton for your continued interest
> >and involvement), and if someone has had a really interesting or
> >controversial, or what we might feel is not informed, perspective that
> >might need further discussion, we have names of people we can call for a
> >meeting, give them other names or offices for resources to check, etc.
> >
> >In short, we have been open in giving our full names and the addresses of
> >legitimate community isps.
> >
> >Suddenly we get notes from obviously anonymous writers using .writeme.com
> >and .notme.com with "gussie" "cookie" (attached to jane@notme.com).
> >
> >I'm wondering if I'm alone in feeling that no matter what right they have
> >to vent whatever agenda they have, with a justifiable cause or not, none of
> >us should feel we have to engage in discussion on their topic nor should we
> >tolerate being castigated for being apathetic or lukewarm. If they are
> >community members and have reason to remain anonymous they might at least
> >explain. Otherwise, to me, they could just be list surfers (and I've tried
> >enough lists to find that listsurfing and venting anger is a favorite past
> >time of a small number of verbal cyberfans). There are plenty of lists with
> >anonymous participants where topics are discussed in the abstract, and
> >anger is exchanged with incredible intensity. Correct me if I'm way off
> >base, but Vision2020 was started as a community forum and reason and
> >courtesy were implied (may even have been expressed) conditions for
> >participation. Action and follow-up were also implied, if not expressed,
> >expectations. For the most part, I think our discussions have followed
> >both conditions.
> >
> >Kathleen Warren
>
>
>