Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 18:52:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU> Subject: marxism-general: info sheet To subscribe to the list described below, send the message subscribe marxism-general to majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ----------- This is the marxism-general list info sheet. Contents: 1 Non-Moderation Policy and General Info 2 Technical Info and Contact Person 3 Archives and Other Electronic Resources ---------------------------------------------- 1 -Non-Moderation Policy and General Info- MARXISM-GENERAL is brought to you by the Spoon Collective, a group of Net citizens devoted to free and open discussion of philosophical issues on the Internet. This particular list is designed to fill a need in marxism space for a list that offers absolute openness to its subscribers. All posts are distributed to the list without the contents being reviewed or approved by anyone, no subject is out of bounds, there is no editor or moderator, and there is no formal policy for expulsion. PLEASE BE AWARE THAT POSTS CONTAINING LANGUAGE OR DEALING WITH SUBJECT MATTER THAT SOME MIGHT FIND OFFENSIVE OR SLANDEROUS MAY APPEAR ON THE LIST FROM TIME TO TIME. SUCH POSTS WILL NOT BE CENSORED. THEY ARE THE SOLE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE AUTHOR AND NOT OF THE SPOON COLLECTIVE. ALL POSTS WILL BE ARCHIVED AND THE ARCHIVES ARE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE. This policy is intended to allow creative and critical thought. The marxism-general list aims at making a contribution to progressive struggles under the motto: more knowledge is better than less, more information is better than less, and diverse view points are welcome. The Left does not have to be afraid of the truth, not even the truth about itself. However those who want a higher signal-to-noise ratio or those who want an introduction to marxism may prefer to subscribe to one of the several moderated lists instead: marxism-international, marxism-and-sciences, marxism-intro, etc. The responsibility for the quality of the list discussion does not lie with a group of moderators but with all list members. If you are dissatisfied with the discussion on the list, you have a powerful means at your hands to change this state of affairs: by posting your own contributions. Individual postings can make a lot of difference. The list's committment to openness may be formulated as follows: the list rules do not contain any impediments for opennenss. The responsibility whether such openness will in fact be achieved however lies with the list members alone. Even a formally open list may be quite restrictive and build up strong informal structures of domination. It is the responsibility of the members to prevent illegitimate authority. The list is also not totally open in the following respect. Some people have more time to post and read, some people are constrained by slow computers, bad connections, a lack of free time, low income, and exorbitant charges for their access to the internet. Again this requires responsibility on part of the list members. Please keep this in mind and post only things which are worth while for these readers. Regarding the Digest: Marxism-general is expected to be a HIGH VOLUME list. If you do not want to be distracted by 40-90 separate posts per day, you may subscribe to the digest form of marxism-general. Whether in digest form or straight, you may regard the list as a newspaper, and read only the columns/threads that interest you. At the top of each digest (about 40K in length) there is a table of contents, with the subject line and author of each post. This assists one in reading selectively. Because of the high volume, the digest does not take long to fill up and be automatically sent out. The 'delay' in receiving messages should only be a few hours. ----------------------------------------------- 2 -Technical Info and Contact Person- To post a message to the list, address it to marxism-general-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu To sub, unsub or otherwise command Majordomo [the software] to do something for you, you must address your command to majordomo-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.edu The body of the message must contain only the command, subject line is irrelevant. Basic commands that you will need: subscribe marxism-general unsubscribe marxism-general subscribe marxism-general-digest unsubscribe marxism-general-digest [Notice that marxism-general and marxism-general-digest are treated as separate lists, but only for purposes of un/subbing. It is possible to be subbed to _both_ lists.] To get a current copy of this info sheet, or that of any other Spoons list: info marxism-general info marxism-general-digest info listname To get a list of subscribers you will need to enter the two commands who marxism-general who marxism-general-digest To get a list of Spoons lists: lists [Other spoon lists include: third-world-women, deleuze-guattari, avant-garde, frankfurt- school, film-theory, fiction-of-philosophy, bhaskar, cybermind, french-feminism, nietzsche... and, above all, an expanding spectrum of marxism lists.] If you have questions that are not part of the onlist discussion itself, or if the list experiences technical difficulties, please email to the technical facilitator [not editor or moderator] Hans Ehrbar ehrbar-AT-econ.utah.edu ----------------------------------------------- 3 -Archives and other Left Resources Posts to marxism-general are permanently archived, available through the WWW page of the Spoon Collective, which links to pages and archives for all the Spoon lists http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~spoons There are several marxism related papers also available there, and archives for all other Spoon lists. These archives are also available via anonymous ftp to jefferson.village.viriginia.edu, in the directory pub/pubs/listservs/spoons/marxism-general.archive or via gopher to jefferson.village.virginia.edu, under the directories Publications of the Institute/Discussion Lists/spoons/marxism-general.archive or via e-mail by using the majordomo get command. If you sent a message to majordomo-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU consisting of the line get marxism-general current you will get the latest postings to the list (which are asselbled in a file named "current"). Somewhat older postings can be retrieved by using the command get marxism-general recent To get a list of all archive files available, send a message consisting of the line: index marxism-general to: majordomo-AT-jefferson.village.virginia.EDU You will get a list of files which can be retrieved by the "get" command. Here is the example of a get command which retrieves a an archive file which has messages sent out before October 19, 1996, 18:39 GMT (you will receive a mail message of about 360 Kilobytes long): get marxism-general marxism-general_1996/96-10-marxism-general/96-10-19.183 >>>> >>>>
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