From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 06:06:29 MDT
On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 03:39 am, Alex Ramonsky wrote:
> If you are seen as part of a group, the behaviour of every single
> member of that group affects you personally. New members and the
> general public are going to judge the group according to what they see
> in real time.
> I joined a new group and the topics on its mailing list were
> unpleasant in my opinion, I'd withdraw, not perhaps realising that
> these posts were a minority. I'd then tell others who asked about this
> group, "oh, they just seem to talk about murdering all the time; don't
> bother with them," etc etc. If someone statred causing bad trouble in
> public and shouting about being an extropian, I'd hesitate to ally
> myself with anything connected with that word.
> As a member of a group we all have a responsibility not to do anything
> deleterious to the reputation of that group. We're in control of the
> reputation we get only as long as that responsibility is acknowledged.
I fear this is very true. I just did a search on "extropian and racist"
and found dozens of sites that try to classify groups. They list
extropians as one of the neonazi racist groups. Some of these sites
have quotations from the list and from the archives, or pointers to
other webpages with extropian posting on them. I didn't realize how bad
this problem was. I need to do more investigation on the Internet to
see what other people are saying about Extropians. At first glance it
doesn't look good.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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