Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 09:52:55 +1000 (EST)
From: Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au>
Subject: Re: M-I: Re: What's wrong with this list


At 12:35 PM 12/20/97 -0800, you wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Dec 1997 g.egan-AT-gold.ac.uk wrote:
>
>> In the 48 hours since joining this list I've noticed:
>> 1. Intense personal abuse being exchanged.
>[followed by a long catalogue of sins]
>
>Hey, if you think this is bad, you should've seen the Bills-Packers
>game. Line judges, sportscasters, tibulas every which way -- it was
>getting ugly out there. 
>
>List-servs late in the holiday season are kind of like big cities: the
>place is deserted except for the winos, rent-a-Santas, and the odd
>sectarian of inscrutable ideological persuasion. 
>
>May I suggest we all hoist an eggnog, toast the new year and celebrate
>some of the fine victories won by the comrades this year. Here's to
>the UPS workers, the workers at Han Young, and to the German university
>student strike! May the 21st century be capitalism's last! (*clink*)
>


And Dennis 


Let's not forget the victories of the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) in
their struggle with the Tories down under!

regards

Gary



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