[PEN-L:6813] Re: Shawgi and Censorship

[bill mitchell <ECWFM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jerry - i don't quite get it. his reaction to post to your mailperson about
being bombarded with multiple (did you really send 30 of each) emails back from
you seems appropriate. He gets the message with one returned mail...in the same
way you return normal mail if it is "not known at this address" (at least in
OZ).

i do not like much of tell's posts b/c i feel they are generally outlines of
basic marxist principle which i think i learned long ago. but i still think he
has not contravened any of the "rules" of pen-l which appear when you sub.

maybe he is anti-social....but i wear yellow socks and shorts to work ....so
what. eccentricity is a safeguard against conformism.....and conformism is
exactly what the capitalist system requires from us.

if you want block protection against him/her then just delete every mail (blair
had some useful ideas). it takes less than a second to do this. if we wnat to
innovate some "private property" rules on pen-l then michael should organise a
pen-l convention on-line and talk it through and then we vote. of-course, if
there are any rules i would leave. For those on pkt, we had this nonsense about
this time last year. the list, in my view, has not recovered since.

i also found shawgi's claims to be always willing to talk rather odd. the style
of his posts are not communicative at all.

kind regards
bill

>Oh My! Poor Shawgi -- victim of censorship!
>
>Responding to Maggie's suggestion yesterday that we make it a "two-way
>street", I sent Shawgi's messages back to him.
>
>Read what the poor victim and outspoken opponent of censorship on the
>Net did next .../Jerry
>
>
>Hi:
>
>This is to officially register a complaint with the postmaster at pratt
>regarding the harassment coming from Gerald Levy (user id is
>glevy@xxxxxxxxx).
>
>Gerald and I both subscribe to an internet discussion list, PEN-L.  Over
>the last two days he has taken whatever I have posted to PEN-L and sent
>me over 30 copies of each post.  I consider this a form of harassment.
>He is clearly abusing his mail privileges, using them as an outlet for
>harassment.
>

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