Date: Fri, 06 Feb 1998 14:36:08 -0800
From: David Stevens <phylstevens-AT-worldnet.att.net>
Subject: re: M-G: Spoons moderator calls subscriber "Piss Boy"


Hugh Rodwell <m-14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se> says:
> 
> Here's the kind of thing M-International subscribers get to read -- from
> their Spoons moderator, Louis Godena:

 [Point of clarification:  I believe that Louis "Piss Boy" Godena
is not a member of the Spoons Collective, but merely a moderator
of a mailing list, much as Dondero and Ryan moderate the T-P list
in support of the ETOL online Trotsky project].

> >I must say, Brits, that your Tony Blair is an ugly twerp.  I had never seen
> >him up close before.  What an execrably revolting little shit!  And his
> >exhorting the Americans to murder more Iraqui women and children!  So this,
> >together with Rodwell, Adam Rose, and Richard "Piss Boy" Bos, is the
> >"British Left"?
> >
> >Christ, give me John Major and Ruta What's-Her-Name any day!
> 
> 
> The quality really benefits from quantitative limits on posting and letting
> moderators do as they like, doesn't it?

 Never challenge a skunk to a pee-pee contest.

> The above outburst even had Gary MacLennan leaping in to defend both myself
> and the British left.

 And Louis Godena didn't censor your replies?  Goodness, he must
be slowing down a tad.

 Either that, or you all cleverly disguised your political content
as "*** Virus Alerts ***" for the cluefully challenged.  ;-)

- David Stevens, who waits for the -digest and still often
                 manages to skip whatever Godena is spouting


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