Re: Marxism -- List? -- Newsgroup?

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You(Chris) wrote:
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>Could anyone explain for me and any other people, how it
>differs from a list, or a forum, or a conference? What might a marxism
>newsgroup feel like? Why would it be less personal? How might
>it relate to a list like this?
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    Carlos adds:
    I do not agree with a newsgroup.  THey work essentialy the same as
    out list but, in order to join a list you need to take the extra
    step of finding it (somebody have to tell you about its existence)
    and you ara not easily run into into it.  The you have to send an
    E-Mail to join.  You also have to send your messages to a central
    person who re-post it in the list.  These are all advantages over
    the Newsgroup:

    a. You actually have to do some work to find it and join it.
    Therefore your interest have to be a little higher than joining
    a newsgroup.

    b. Ussually a list receive much less obnoxious visitors.
    Newsgroups are visited by Cyberspace bums with nothing to do
    but to visit newsgroups and initiate either an unrelated thread
    or a flame war.  That happens much less in a list.

    c. If the list receives a extremely dangerous or obnoxious post,
    let's say from a fascist saying "Fuck you all, Marxists" we may
    decide not to continue posting them.  In an unmoderated newsgroup
    that happens everyday.

    d. Crossposting of unrelated material happens less often in a list,
    much less often ...

    Comradely,
    Carlos

    P.S.: BTW, can everyone drop thatr useless discussions about
    psychology, paranoia and other mental diseases.  I'm pretty sure
    uou're all good marxists, but as Psychologists ...... uhmmmmm!






>Thanks,
>
>Chris B,
>London.
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>From: boddhisatva <kbevans@xxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 1:54:26 EST
>Subject: Re: Marxism -- List? -- Newsgroup?
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>               To whom...,
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>       I'd like to add a word of agreement with John Ernst about the
USENET
>newsgroup.  It would lack the personal aspect of the list, but right
now that
>seems possibly a good thing.  I sometimes think that if the
bourgeoisie were
>to read this list, they would realize that they need not beat us with
clubs,
>just hurt our feelings, and we go all to pieces.
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>       But seriously, although it could not take the place of the list,
a
>marxism news group would add something to USENET.  Right now, all I
get
>is alt.politics.radical-left (not very) and alt.fan.noam-chomsky,
which
>as has been discussed is a little fan mail-ish for serious discussion.
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