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 Reading
From:
"J. Neil Schulman" <[email protected]>
Over the past week I've rejected half a dozen
messages.
One was about Biblical exegesis, which I rejected for being off topic
for this group.
Several were cross-postings from socialist websites to a bunch of
socialist groups where, when I rejected it, the poster didn't even
know 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 decided
are 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 so
it's no mystery of how to get published on this list.
There you go.
Neil