For Anarchists and LeftLibs in Need of a Good Laugh
I just got this in the mail. I thought it so uproariously funny I just have to share it: [LeftLibertarian] What You're Not ReadingSaturday, August 9, 2008 11:43 PMFrom: "J. Neil Schulman" <jneil@jesulu.com>Add sender to Contacts To: LeftLibertarian@yahoogroups.com
Over the past week I've rejected half a dozen messages.
One was about Biblical exegesis, which I rejected for being off topicfor this group.
Several were cross-postings from socialist websites to a bunch ofsocialist groups where, when I rejected it, the poster didn't evenknow what list he had submitted it to. But this idiot did take time to call me an authoritarian for not publishing his second-hand state socialist crap.
One was a direct commercial solicitation to sell DVD's -- and rejecting purely commercial messages was a policy instituted by this list's founder, SEK3. When he was running this list Sam rejected messages from me that he considered too directly commercial.
The latest message I rejected today was someone taking a pot shot at me - calling me xenophobic for my posting a link to a news report on Random House/Bertelsmann' s cowardly killing of an American novel they were about to publish with an author's publicity tour which might possibly have offended some intolerant Muslims.
Let me re-state this list's policy.
The MLL list is a moderated discussion group, and always has been, since SEK3 founded it.
Think of it as a newsletter with an editor. You want to get published here you have to write something which the editor (that's me) thinks is interesting, on topic, and which I think will interest the other participants in this list.
You bore me, you don't get published here.
You insult me, you don't get published here.
You send in something that has nothing to do with what I've decidedare the publishing goals of this list, you don't get published here.
I've already posted a bunch of topics that I would be interested in soit's no mystery of how to get published on this list.
There you go.
Neil
