Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 00:17:31 +0100
Subject: Re: Long live M2! -PLEASE READ


>     I remain mystified not only as to why M2 must go but
>as to why there is a need for an unmoderated M1.  Besides
>malecki and Adolfo, is there anybody else out there who
>would not prefer to see M1 REPLACED COMPLETELY by a list
>that is volume moderated only?  This is what I would like
>to see happen, presuming the volume limits are reasonable.
>I have suggested the ecol-econ system of not more than 12%
>of the last 100 postings per person, which does not
>restrict a person by day, but is more flexible over a
>longer period.
>     What do we need a renamed M1 for?  It has been the
>problem all along, not M2.
>Barkley Rosser

I think it's worth having a completely open discussion area. As I've said
before, *completely* alien elements don't last long. Any scum is our own,
so to speak. And *my* scum is *someone else's* rosewater -- as witness the
fawning of innumerable subscribers on Stalin's hurdy-gurdy man.

See it as a public square during the Weimar Republic, with lots of people
running around shooting off their mouths and their revolvers. Sometimes the
Reds packed the place, sometimes the Brownshirts, sometimes others. History
in the making.

M1 hasn't been a problem. Some subscribers have been perceived as a
problem. It's not the same thing.

As for discussions, M1 has been the vital place, and would have been even
better if some of the mainly academic crowd hadn't vamoosed to m2.

Anyway, as Doug might say, why all the kvetching? Most m2 subscribers
accepted Spoon's despotic and arbitrary rule over their own patch of
cyberspace without blinking when it was invoked to squash "undesirables".
And now the same admirers of the jackboot (so to say) squeal when the iron
heel descends on *their own* sensitive parts?!

An object lesson on the limits of discourse in bourgeois society. In other
words, whose will *really* matters?

Cheers,

Hugh




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