[Vision2020] A Plea to Visionaires

[Bill London]

T-
good plan
BL




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
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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