My goodness! Such an uproar!
I get the feeling I'm the only one who thinks Eric and Tamas are funny. And
I don't mean that ironically. More to the point, I believe they are very
much aware that they're being funny. Everyone always responds to their
posts which such dead earnestness...aincha got no sensa hewma?
Come on kids,
Lighten up.
BadgerGirl
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>From: Eryk Salvaggio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: FLUXLIST: test x
>Date: Thu, Jul 12, 2001, 5:00 PM
>
> Sol is over reacting. If you don't like Eric or Tamas, ignore
> them. Censorship and ostracism is never the answer.
>
> What they are asking for carries no weight, and you are escalating
> the issue and making it appear as though people are listening by
> declaring them a threat to the list. You want to have an interesting
> conversation, start one. Or at worst, Moderate. I may be forced to
> moderate some of my own lists, but I will not go to kicking people
> off who post something I don't like.
>
> I don't recommend you do it, either.
>
> -e.
>
> Sol Nte wrote:
>>
>> Tamas wrote:
>>
>> >If the Fluxlisters majority will vote YES,
>> then we shall vote about the voting about
>> the exclusion of ann klefstad.<
>>
>> My response:
>>
>> Dear Tamas and Eric,
>>
>> There is no question of excluding Ann from the list!
>>
>> I personally have had enough of your tedious agitation on this list. For two
>> years now every once in a while you seem to do this and it is wearing very
>> thin!
>>
>> Thanks to you two, Ken Friedman and others left the list.. I'm not prepared
>> to see you try to drive off other people or deteriorate this list just for
>> your own amusement so I'm giving you the choice to either stop this
>> pointless agitation and contribute to the list in a positive way or I remove
>> you both from the list permanently ......this decision will NOT be voted
>> upon apart from by the owner group!
>>
>> Some of you may think it odd that I would even consider banning an original
>> Fluxus artist from Fluxlist..perhaps this is why we let Eric and his
>> sidekick Tamas get away with so much in the past........Anyway George
>> Maciunas expelled Eric from Fluxus in the sixties so any act that's good
>> enough for George Maciunas is good enough for me.
>>
>> To the majority of this list who make wonderful contributions and with whom
>> it is a pleasure to interact online I can see that you may wonder what all
>> the fuss is about. If you have the time read the archive reference in my
>> earlier post and see how nasty things got the last two times Tamas and Eric
>> decided to complain about the list and attack people on it. I'm afraid that
>> the sort of majority decisions that these two suggest for Fluxlist leave
>> Fluxlist open to abuse, their actions have in the past led to the loss of
>> several contributors to the list and others feeling intimidated about
>> posting. In fact we've let them both get away with this for far too long.
>>
>> I apologise to anyone who has just joined the list as it may seem at the
>> moment that being on this list is somewhat of a waste of time. Please rest
>> assured that this list has a good culture that is only occasionally
>> compromised as is occurring at the moment. I hope anyone currently feeling
>> worried about the list's value sticks with it. Those of you who've been on
>> the list for a few months or more know that overall it's a great list and
>> unique in its position on the web. I personally love being on Fluxlist and
>> get a lot of pleasure from it which is why these two make myself and others
>> pretty angry.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm sorry it had to come to this but I hope this is the end of this
>> nonsense.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Sol.
