Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 17:54:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re:  Six questions to the spooners


> 1) Is the number of members of the Spoon Collective
> confidential and are the names and addresses of those
> members confidential?

You can get the addresses by sending the command

      who spoon-administration

to  majordomo-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu .

> 3) Is it possible for people who today are not Spoon
> members to join that Collective?

Yes.

> 4) If the answer to 3. is "yes", what would be required of
> new members - in the case that there should be rules on
> that - or, if not, what is the Spoon process for accepting or 
> declining such applications? (If there *is* a defined one,
> that is.) 

People become Spoon members when such a becoming is regarded as mutually
desirable and productive by them and by Spoon.  Usually this is in conjunction
with the candidate proposing a list/project that is of enough interest to enough
people already in Spoon. 

> 5) Within the Spoons Collective (if the answer to my 
> question 1. is "no"), who are the people who jointly decide
> on how to manage the present Marxism list (M1)? 

Decisions within Spoon are made by whoever wants to participate and has 
something to say about the issue at hand.  

> 6) On the philosophy of the Spoon Collective, has anything
> else been agreed on in addition to that which was stated
> in the "welcome" posting which I, for instance, received
> last April?

I don't think there are any fixed points of Spoon philosophy.  To paraphrase
a piece of non-marxist aesthetics, Spoon philosophy is a process, not a product.


-m 


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