As if the Goa-related FB groups and mailing lists not enough, there's one more started, A-List. However, the A-List is just a bunch of emails which have been taken off from heare and there, including Goanet. Most of the emials were snatched without even the courtesy of asking for permission from owners of the email ids. Call it daylight robbery.
Whatever good purpose the founder/s of the list had in starting it, I think the purpose has been defeated. No matter how much the main founder, Joseph Rebello, has pleaded to avoid abusive language, emails with foul language still go thorought. Why? The list isn't hosted on any Listserv but emails are cc'ed to the ids on the list. I have repeatedly asked the owner of the list to remove me and he said he has done so, though he has sent me some recent ones. It's hard to block the 60-odd emails on the list. As for some attacks on me there for doing a critical review of the interviews by Niz Goenkar of some activists in Goa, I am not surprsied to receive a couple of abusive emails. I expected many more, and also an avalanche on NG. But as of yesterday there were a few. It's shocking that Joseph or, as he signs himself JR, has complained to Goanet to request me for making "damaging remarks" against one of Goanet members, Menino Fernandes, who is owner/editor of Niz Goenkar. The site has used foul language to describe some politicians and the Alamaos have been the worst targets. The site carries an apology from Menino Fernandes, who also goes by the name Menino de Valpoi. "I would liek to apologize to the viewers for a wrong name used by me during the interview and would like to apologise to the person if any, does really exist by that name. I have used the name Ujjwal Mishra which may please be correst to be read as O.P. Mishra and not UJJWAL MISHRA. I called O.P. Mishra a Joke and Not Ujjwal Mishra if one does exist by the former name. THE NAME OF THE DIG MAY PLEASE BE READ AS O.P. MISHRA -- Menino de Valpoi." Yeah, everyone has a right to start a list. Also everyone has a right to express his/her opinion or do a critique of any public interview. I can't why JR wants to Goanet to demand an apology for me when the man himself, Sir Menino, is himself silent on Goanet where he is a member. Eugene
