[Vision2020] A Plea to Visionaires

[B. J. Swanson]

Tom,

I couldn't agree more.  Please understand that by continuing to respond to
No Weatherman, you are destroying Vision 2020.  Please just bite your
fingers and ignore.

Thank you,

B. J. Swanson

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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:48 AM
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] A Plea to Visionaires

Greetings Visionaires -

Let me preface my request with a short Vision 2020 history lesson.

Over the years that I have subscribed to the Vision 2020 listserve, there
have been several attempts to shut it down.

First there was an attempt to establish a Vision 2020 monitor whose
apparent duties would have been to determine acceptable topics to discuss
and to remove any subscribers failing to stay in lockstep with guidelines
established by The Monitor.

Then there was the infamous letter/email, sent to First Step Internet (the
techies that maintain the Vision 2020 listserve), demanding that the Vision
2020 listserve be terminated as the anonymous authors of the letter/email
felt beleaguered and harassed by its continuance.

There have been other attempts to shut down this listserve.  However, like
those two attempts outlined above, they failed.

And now the listserve is forced to endure No Weatherman and its attempt to
eliminate the Vision 2020 listserve.

It is my strong impression that No Weathermans purpose is to post racist,
ignorant, marginally-threatening, rude, and extremely profane comments to
the listserve in attempt to degenerate the quality of the listserves
purpose, as more and more subscribers disappear into Moscows anonymity,
their thoughts not to be shared again.

I strongly believe in the Vision.  Its purpose is to provide a venue for
sharing thoughts of community and how that community may be improved, not
only for us, but four our children.

If the Vision were to shut down, a very, most vital source of community
interaction disappears with it.

My suggestion is to merely ignore No Weatherman, regardless of its
rantings.  Eventually it will catch on and disappear along with its
predecessor, The Monitor.

Lets keep this virtual town hall meeting alive.

In the interim . . .

Seey at Farmers Market, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho


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