List Expulsion Poll

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

Forrest--

You wrote:

Don might be happy to be expelled; then he can claim that his barbs
were
so sharp that the EM list members couldn't cope with them, so they
banned
him. It might give the EM list a reputation for closed mindedness.

Even undeserved reputations can be bad PR.

I reply:

Mabye--It's like when some scientists tried to get publishers to not
publish Velikovsky. He made a big thing of how the establishment had
tried to muzzle him.

They shouldn't have done that. But if an astronomical journal were
printing material by Velikovsky, devoted entirely to name-calling,
they'd
have more to complain about. I understand that a mailing list
isn't a journal, but that doesn't mean that its charter topic shouldn't
be respected.

Some subscribers might be asking "Is this a voting system mailing
list or a hatemail mailing list?"

Maybe in this case the gain in popularity from being free of Don's
and Craig's trash postings seems greater than the loss of popularity
if anyone believes that Don or Craig were removed because of their
beliefs--anyone receiving a message from them would get a pretty good
idea of why they were removed.

Booting Don & Craig would be a matter of good housekeeping. Messages
that are about namecalling and alleged faults of other people instead
of being about voting systems just don't belong on a voting system
mailing list.

Mike






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