[PEN-L:8778] Re: Re: PEN-L

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK

>>> <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 07/02/99 01:02PM >>>
Perhaps all of us need to be criticized regularly, but the problem is
nobody would have the slightest interest in a list devoted to slamming one
another.

Moreover, as I said before, what he said was closer to the truth than a
slander.  I do not want to see us getting into such matters.  I told him
so and he complied.

We can do better.
 >
> OK , but Max does need to be criticized regularly for what he says (not who he is).
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> CB
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> >>> Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 07/02/99 12:53PM >>>
> Please, I do not care what was said about pen-l.  We do not want to reignite that sort of debate.  Max is free to say what he wants outside of pen-l.  We have no need to rebuke him.
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> In fact, however, Max is correct.  I asked him to refrain from discussing certain matters on pen-l and he graciously has complied so far.  Rather than feeling badly toward Max, I am appreciative.
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> Charles Brown wrote:
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> > (The below was followed by a news article on the Chinese Communist Party leader affirming socialism over capitalism. )
> >
> > This post from Max seems a slander of PEN-L to me. The moderator on PEN-L has asked that personal attacks be stopped. He has not said that the Chinese Communist Party leaders, old and new, cannot be criticized.
> >
> > Max poses as the tragic , persecuted comedian, like , who is it,  Il Pagliacci . But it seems to me that he tells all the jokes he wants on PEN-L.
> >
> > Charles Brown
> >
> > At 13:47 01/07/99 -0500, you wrote:
> > >The absent HCKL would have forwarded this, I am sure. "First you turn to
> > >the left, then you turn to the right..."  As I remember (probably
> > >incorrectly) from Let's Do The Space Warp Again.
> > >
> > >john mage
> >
> > On PEN-L you can't say that.
> >
> > mbs
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> michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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