Re: DISCUSSION: New list vs Censorship

["Ted Moffett" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>]

John et. al.

If someone wanted to comment on a post from an events only list, they could 
just post to the discussion list and indicate they are COMMENTING on an 
event listed on the events only list.  How would discussion be censored?

I think the main issue for many people is that they want to use vision2020 
for keeping up with community events and issues, but find the quantity 
and/or quality of posts recently to be overwhelming and/or a waste of time.  
For those of us who have the time and/or inclination to deal with going 
through the list and deleting what we are not interested in, this is not a 
major problem, but for some people it is.

I have been keeping track of the vision2020 subscriber list, and it has 
grown smaller from 468 to 461 in the past few months.  This is hardly a mass 
defection from the list, and it so easy to unsubscribe, that I conclude 
discontent with vision2020 is not as intense or as widespread as some 
suggest.

Ted

>From: "John Danahy" <JDANAHY@turbonet.com>
>To: "Vision2020" <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: DISCUSSION: New list vs Censorship
>Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 19:50:30 -0700
>
>While I can understand and sympathize with those who feel that some topics
>have run on far too long, I am concerned with the idea of starting a new
>list that would delete commentary.  One purpose of having such a discussion
>list is to make announcements, and then publicly answer questions and
>receive feedback.  Unfortunately, we are only human and as such tend to 
>view
>the "open mike" style of this list as a soapbox.
>If we did start a new list that suppressed commentary, those who simply
>wished to announce and did not want to deal with the controversy, would 
>then
>use the new list.  This is subtle form of censorship.
>Simple announcements are best left to church bulletins, etc.
>
>John Danahy
>jdanahy@turbonet.com




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