Message-ID: <19990812040617.AAA27305@LOCALNAME> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 01:09:52 +0000 From: Kerry Miller <mailto:kerryo@ns.sympatico.ca> Subject: Re: Action against the WTO To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
Cristina S. Herdman <mailto:cristina@advocatesforyouth.org> wrote,> it's hard for me to fathom that you two have chosen to continue this
> discussion publicly over the course of the entire day, forcing me to
> wait for the topic to blow over. is it not patently obvious that the topic
> is of primary interest only to the two of you and yet hundreds of others
> must receive your emails? please stop this rude behaviour -- continue
> your discussion privately or start your own listserv. thanks much!
> (and feel free to forward this to your conspirator)
At least it brings some new voices out of the virtual woodwork! However, since I have not had the same opportunity to see what you consider interesting, I cannot agree that it is obvious that those who say nothing are inclined one way or the other, much less rude to suggest that they might care to form an opinion as to how much of their future they will control.
In any case, I appreciate your taking the time -- doubtless a minute or two out of your entire day -- to inform me of your particular disinterest. It's odd, nevertheless, that having subscribed to a public listserv for the express purpose of sharing other subscribers' mail, you feel as if you have been *forced to endure this indignity -- and then choose not to share your own. (One has to wonder if the full-bore libertarian equivalent of a mailing list must not aim to have a kind of random shotgun effect, with posts going to 2 or 300 (hey, why not 10,000?) unknown individuals: no logistically *centralized common ground (let alone a conceptual one), and no expectation of ever hearing from any of them again. Who would ever think to expect continuity, coherence, or even *development of a point of view then?)
======== Can you tell us more about your functions as manager of the International Clearinghouse and New Media, and especially how you achieve open and honest discussion within a framework of advocacy for youth? Do they come to understand what a conspiracy is, for instance?
On the strength of your invitation to forward your message to another person who is equally a stranger to me, I am posting this message to the list. Perhaps, if hy then identifies hymself, we can discuss what we ought to conspire about -- publicly of course; could we interest you in a critical analysis of the popularity of posing on behalf of 'lurkers' as against saying straight out what one stands for?
Cheers, kerry