[Vision2020] A Plea to Visionaires

[Art Deco]

Eliminate using the delete key.  Put NW on your bozo filter list.

W.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 6:47 AM
  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 Weatherman's purpose is to post racist, 
  ignorant, marginally-threatening, rude, and extremely profane comments to 
  the listserve in attempt to degenerate the quality of the listserve's 
  purpose, as more and more subscribers disappear into Moscow's 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.

  Let's keep this virtual town hall meeting alive.

  In the interim . . .

  Seey at Farmers' Market, Moscow.

  Tom Hansen
  Moscow, Idaho


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