[New-imc] PROPOSAL: list purge BLOCK!!

[Pete Stidman]

I see your point on the blocks here.  I maybe jumped a
bit fast into it, but I definitely feel I would be
strongly against any form of a list purge. We actually
did a list purge here in Boston for our discuss list
but retrospectively it was a bad idea.  Lurkers often
make contributions and help here and there, there's
also no real solid reason for knocking people off in
my mind.  I am always  open for discussion though. so
I guess I don't block really, just potentially.

-Pete
  


--- Duncan Lithgow <duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk> wrote:

> On Saturday 26 February 2005 21:00,
> new-imc-request at lists.indymedia.org 
> wrote:
> > Subject: Re: [New-imc] PROPOSAL: list purge
> BLOCK!!
> > To: toya <toya at riseup.net>, new-imc at indymedia.org
> > Message-ID:
> <20050226034856.63554.qmail at web41908.mail.yahoo.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> >
> > I block this proposal hard.  
> >
> > This is seems essentially the same as a list
> purge.
> > One of the most sacred things in indymedia is
> > transparency.  Who cares if people lurk?
> 
> I have lurked for years - I'd even forgotten I was
> on this list - but 
> so? Who am I harming? What is my sin?
> 
> A word on blocks to both Clara and Pete - as I
> understand it a block is 
> a last resort and not to be used as flippantly as it
> is just now. A 
> 'block' should not be thought of as a vote against
> something - or even 
> a statement of opinion.
> 
> A block is a barrier on the road, a barracade if you
> will. An assertion 
> that your conviction is so sacred to you that you
> could not accept in 
> any form a current proposal (and yes, i think there
> has to actually 
> _be_ aproposal)
> 
> So, please, for what it's worth from a mere lurker
> who claims no moral 
> highground, discuss first - block as a last resort.
> 
> In solidarity - good to see the discussion still
> 'thriving and 
> vigorous',
> Duncan
> 
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> search the network, 
> especially docs.indy for my old nick RovinNZ)
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