It appears as if Jonathan Reeves <JonathanR@mail.iclshelpdesks.com> wrote:
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|I may be new to this list, but I was under the impression that
|extropians valued free thinking, free speech, learning about all areas
|of life and science, accepting the importance (and usefulness) of
|hearing points of view which differ to your own own.
They do.
|Now, it seems like some kind of clique are trying to claim the list as
|their own personal chat room, by either setting up democratic
|censorship or just simply buying the thing outright.
Text cathegorization lets the reader decide. It breaks the author's broadcast monopoly on the list. It works like a SPAM filter: the reader decides, not the author.
|Apologies if I have miunderstood anyones intent, but the tone of the
|postings has seemed to me very suspect. I don't care if someone's
|grammar or spelling aren't too clever - they still have a right to
|express their point of view - do you want people to pass an entrance
|test before being allowed to post to the list?
Anybody can write. But everybody need not read it.
You appear to confuse the reader's free choice with censorship.
|In principle the prefixes are a good idea, although so many of the
|discussions are linked in ways which cross over the boundaries that I
|think it might be a little hard (and misleading) to enforce.
Prefixing saves time. Some have very little of this precious resource.