RE: The Fall of 'Challenge'?

["Brown, Martin - ARP (NCI)" <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I came across his anti-trust journal many years ago and thought it was
pretty good, though obviously a slight quirky operation.  This just shows
how the mentality of anti-trust can be profoundly "liberal," in the cold-war
sense of the word.  The guy must be the same age as the queen mother by now
- 101.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Keaney [mailto:Michael.Keaney@xxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:17 AM
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [PEN-L:15967] The Fall of 'Challenge'?


Barkley wrote:

Michael,
      Yes, Mueller threatened to contact my university
and inform them of my clearly obnoxious and Marxist
behavior.

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What a disgusting piece of work. On the AFEE list his downfall was
triggered by an event that took place after a few months of his trying
to steer conversation his way by more polite means. Purporting to be
trying to get a measure of the "AFEE line" on monopoly, he posed a
simple question: what do AFEE members think is better as a matter of
abstract principle -- monopoly or competition. When one lister said that
this was "silly" Mueller exploded and launched into a tirade about how
he was being belittled, besmirched, etc. It was a rapid decline
thereafter, until eventually he moved on to plague other lists, before
hitting on the great idea of starting his own lists where he could call
the shots and boot out those not playing by his rules (by definition,
Marxists).

Michael K.