Tom Walker wrote:
> Mark,
>
> Could you please circulate the instructions for removing from list. I will
> be going away shortly and don't want to have my mailbox clogged.
>
>
>
The easiest way to unsub is to write me offlist at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The net result of all the subbing and unsubbing since Crashlist was relaunched on
Saturday last is that there are now 340 members. When we transferredList to
wwpublish.com, there were 354 members.
Crashlist was originally a moderated, low-volume list. There was a spin-off
discussion forum, Crashlist-talk. This had 45 members and generated about 30
emails a day. This list has now come here, and this has helped raised the volume.
This is what I think is called a backwards-merger: CrashList has been backed into
(taken over) by CrashList talk, a smaller but more energetic entity. I'm happy
about that. If the silent consumers of high-quality material on the old Crashlist
are capable of no larger contribution than 'Let me outta here!' when faced with
the raucous process of real debate which actually leads to the good stuff, then
they're welcome to go. They won't be missed.
Crashlist is about understanding the fact that our society has entered a profound
historical impasse, one which threatens humankind's ecological niche and maybe
threatens the whole planetary ecosphere (which is certainly experiencing a mass
extinction right now). That crash and dieoff is not only possible but inevitable,
if we don't change our ways, is what Crashlist is premised on. Those who believe
in business and usual obviously won't be happy here. This is August: go on
vacation, enjoy yourselves.
What we are trying to do here is to attack and analyse this multidimensional
process of destruction, from several different angles, including economics,
environmental sciences, energy studies, and political theory. So yes, the focus is
sharp because it's about the crashing of biomes, species, economies, whole
regions, who ecosystems, resource-bases, and even the terminal dumbing-down of
culture.
And yes, what we are doing is agonisingly *lacking* in focus, it's fuzzy, it's
achingly hard to pin down issues, to even agree on what the questions are, and
when they do get focussed they tend to become fissile, because we do have
explosive combinations here, of malthusian libertarians, marxists, greens, reds,
you name it. But if they want to be here and debate, that's fine by me.
This is now an open, unmoderated list. I've tried it the other ways and this (I
conclude) is the way I like best. So, yes, it's going to look more like a kasbah
than a cloistered faculty from now on. Those who don't like the number of emails
they get, can choose digest mode or they can unsub. Sorry to be intransigent about
it but I believe in the importance of what we are doing here.
Mark Jones
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