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Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:57:55 -0700 (PDT)
From: J Poxon <poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu>
Subject: Re: List groundrules for Utah marxism space


From: Hans Ehrbar <ehrbar-AT-keynes.econ.utah.edu>

Jerry wrote:

> A few suggestions for additional rules:

> 1) no charges that someone is a cop, FBI agent, provocateur,
> counter-revolutionary, etc. unless one is prepared to show *proof* to
> substantiate the charge(s).

I think this should be up to the individual lists.
Maybe some of the lists will decide that they do not
want any speculations at all whether someone is a cop,
and others are willing to discuss this issue.

> 2) no death threats or threats of physical violence.

Yes I agree with this as a groundrule.

> 3) no snitching. This includes, but is not limited to, threats to contact
> a subscriber's employer.

We cannot control the off-list behavior of list members.
Maybe the ground rules should be here: if a list member
snitches on you or otherwise harrasses you based on what you
do on the list, then you have the right to discuss this on
the list.

Then Jerry asked whether digest mode would be possible on
the Utah server.  My answer here: of course.  In principle
one of the benefits of having our own server is that we can
customize our mailing lists to our needs.  In practice the
Utah server will depend on it that we find volunteers who do
some work maintaining these lists.  I am presently taking a
crash course to be a unix systems administrator and am
willing to spend a lot of time in the next few months to get
things rolling, but I have to rely on it that, after the
Utah server is running successfully, other similarly
installed servers will be established elsewhere.  I need
this because I will not be the one-man unpaid internet
service provider for these lists on an indefinite basis, and
a network of such servers is, in my view, an infrastructure
which the Left needs.


Hans.




   

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