Thank you Stephanie. I found the recent exchange between joe and nicole disturbing. I don't want to leave the list, but as many others are thinking, this ongoing discourse (which has turned into an upsetting sex war) is ruining the entire list. Hayley >Dear ECOFEMers: > >I have already responded to joe dees in a private message, but I >also wish my actions to be evident to all list members. > >In my private e-mail I explained that I have issued several warnings >to a number of ECOFEM participants regarding the multiple >breaches of protocol evident on the list. A few members now have >two warnings, and upon the third breach of protocol I will remove >the offender(s) permanently from the list. > >I am not ignoring the conversation. It is being observed and >appropiate actions will be taken. > >Stefanie Rixecker >ECOFEM Coordinator > > > > > >Date sent: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 00:21:01 -0500 >From: joe dees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Humanitarian Missions >To: STUDIES IN WOMEN AND ENVIRONMENT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > >At Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:50:50 EST, you wrote: >> >>Joe, >> >>You don't know what my home country is, the home countries of my parents, >>don't know where I was raised. >> >>You also don't know much about humanitarian issues. >> >>You also don't know much (if anything at all) about Somali. >> >>Yet, you speak as if you are an expert on all three. And you find absolutely >>no problem with doing that, it seems very natural to you. >> >>Thanks for reminding me the lack of value in talking with you - carry on with >>your ignorant and racist ranting. >> >>Nicole > >This is a public list appeal to Stephanie Richexter (sp?), the arbitrator of this list, to note and > deal with the vicious personal attacks once again being perpetrated against me, for no reason I ca >n divine, by Nicole. If you read the posts which I placed to which she seems to think this qualifi >es as an answer, it can clearly be seen that none of them were racist in tone, nor were any of the >facts I proffered in them substantially addressed, much less refuted. How could, and why would, a >serious attempt to discuss substantive issues be at all responsible for inspiring such venomous vit >riol? Perhaps because I dared to have, and even dared to voice, an opinion that might not be abs >olutely contiguous with her own, even though I cannot know what hers is a priori? Heaven Forfend; >as has been richly demonstrated time and again, that sort of impertinence in the face of the Omnisc >ient >! >person off list, because she brings them right back on. You once said to me that if this sort of N >icolean nastiness manifested itself again, that you would deal with it. It is now time for this li >st to see whether you are or are not as good as your word. As to the substance of her continuing a >ttacks; neither one of us seems to be ignorant, but which one sounds racist? >Joe E. Dees >Poet, Pagan, Philosopher > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Access your e-mail anywhere, at any time. >Get your FREE BellSouth Web Mail account today! >http://webmail.bellsouth.net >---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >************************************ >Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker >Division of Environmental Management & Design >Lincoln University, Canterbury >PO Box 84 >Aotearoa New Zealand >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Fax: 64-03-325-3841 >************************************ > > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
