From: "Bob Malecki" <malecki-AT-algonet.se> Subject: M-G: SV: Call to Vote Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 07:39:40 +0200 I to agree with Vlad and will subscribe now to the new list... Warm regards Bob Malecki -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- Från: Siddharth Chatterjee <siddhart-AT-mailbox.syr.edu> Till: marxism-general-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU <marxism-general-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU> Datum: den 26 april 1998 05:47 Ämne: M-G: Call to Vote I second Vladimir's proposal below of Call to Vote. Sid ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 21:37:19 +0000 From: vladimir bilenkin <achekhov-AT-unity.ncsu.edu> Reply-to: achekhov-AT-unity.ncsu.edu Organization: NCSU Polanco" <polancoj-AT-ccaix3.unican.es> Subject: Call to Vote List: My previous post sent today about 11 am. apparently didn't reach you. Unfortunately, I didn't make a copy of it but here is the essence of what I said: 1. Please, subscribe to m-transition so that we can discuss matters above the one post limit on m-g. Send: subscribe marxism-transition to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu You will receive a message asking you to confirm your subscription. 2. I propose to decide on all important issues before us by simple majority of votes. I ask some one to second this proposal and then vote on it. 3. If this proposal passes we need perhaps a week to obtain more info on our choices, discuss them and take the final vote. I believe we have now three proposals for the future list: (1) Rolf's home server (2) Bob Malecki's idea to to go to the Usenet (3) To get a deal with Blithe Systems I believe in Rolf's loyalty to the fundamental principles of this list (no censorship and no exclusions). But there are technical problems, both in managing the list and building a web space around it. Still we need to keep this option open, at least for the period of transition. Also, in the future we may be interested in the emacs solution of having several home based servers which would make the list practically invulnerable. (2) I was not able to connect with the Usenet address Bob suggested and I don't know anything about this system. We need more info on this. The major question is: Will our subscribers be able to subscribe to the Usenet if they have only email capabilities without Internet access (see Nestor's msg)? (3) I like Sid's proposal the best but we need more info. Blithe operates the NY Transfer site which does not host any mailing lists. Do they have the experience to do this? How long will take for them to set the list up and running? Secondly, we'll need a contract with them which makes it clear that the list be run by its participants and that the host provides technical assistance *only.* We also want to know what are their technical capacities. Sid mentioned the Linux web site as an example for our list. But it appears not to be a combination of a gopher connection with the web space and therefore cannot be reached by email. Yet for our list this is vital if we want to reach people beyound the Western academy and bourgeois strata in general. The same Linux system is used by Russians now, with the result that really struggling communists and labor activists are shut off from a couple of "communist" lists which now exist. I am ready to contribute financially. Actually, I believe it is a good idea to impose a kind of a levi (and perhaps a subscription fee in the future) on those subscribers who are comfortably employed in the imperialist countries for the maintanence and development of our site. We need of course more info from Blithe on costs. It goes without saying that those subscribers who pay the costs have no more power of decision than any other subscriber. Simple majority rules the list. Vladimir --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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