From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed May 29 2002 - 05:25:00 MDT
On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, at 02:44 am, Lee Corbin wrote:
> Harvey wrote
>
>> I don't understand why the topics of infanticide, racism and violence
>> keep popping up. There is nothing new in these discussions, but
>> something is driving their constant reintroduction into this forum
>> lately.
>
> Lately? Haven't discussions of racism have been around
> for some time? I know it got quite heated last summer.
> I suspect the same for "violence", but am not really sure
> what you mean by that.
Yes, but this seems more insistent. We used to have long threads that
wouldn't die. These threads seem to die and then get reintroduced again
by someone else. Everytime discussion stops, someone seems to start a
new thread designed to start the whole process over again.
>
>> Stranger still, these threads always seem to include discussions on how
>> to manage the list, how to rewrite Max's principles, how to change the
>> Extropian philosophy, how to establish extropian forums somewhere other
>> than the ExI servers, etc.
>
> Hmm. Could be, but I don't recall list management being
> an issue last summer. As for rewriting Max's principles,
> can you mention who has wanted to do that? Could you
> name anyone who says they want to change Extropian
> philosophy?
It was never an issue before. That is why it is so strangely different
now. As to your other questions, they just seem to be rhetorical.
Everybody can see in the archives who posted what.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> Principal Security Consultant <www.Newstaff.com>
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