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<DIV><FONT size=2>Eliminate using the delete key. Put NW on your bozo
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=thansen@moscow.com href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, October 17, 2008 6:47
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] A Plea to
Visionaires</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Greetings Visionaires -<BR><BR>Let me preface my request with a
short Vision 2020 history lesson.<BR><BR>Over the years that I have subscribed
to the Vision 2020 listserve, there <BR>have been several attempts to shut it
down.<BR><BR>First there was an attempt to establish a Vision 2020 "monitor"
whose <BR>apparent duties would have been to determine acceptable topics to
discuss <BR>and to remove any subscribers failing to stay in lockstep with
guidelines <BR>established by The Monitor.<BR><BR>Then there was the infamous
letter/email, sent to First Step Internet (the <BR>techies that maintain the
Vision 2020 listserve), demanding that the <BR>Vision 2020 listserve be
terminated as the anonymous authors of the <BR>letter/email felt beleaguered
and harassed by its continuance.<BR><BR>There have been other attempts to shut
down this listserve. However, like <BR>those two attempts outlined
above, they failed.<BR><BR>And now the listserve is forced to endure "No
Weatherman" and its attempt <BR>to eliminate the Vision 2020
listserve.<BR><BR>It is my strong impression that No Weatherman's purpose is
to post racist, <BR>ignorant, marginally-threatening, rude, and extremely
profane comments to <BR>the listserve in attempt to degenerate the quality of
the listserve's <BR>purpose, as more and more subscribers disappear into
Moscow's anonymity, <BR>their thoughts not to be shared again.<BR><BR>I
strongly believe in the Vision. Its purpose is to provide a venue for
<BR>sharing thoughts of "community" and how that community may be improved,
<BR>not only for us, but four our children.<BR><BR>If the Vision were to shut
down, a very, most vital source of community <BR>interaction disappears with
it.<BR><BR>My suggestion is to merely ignore "No Weatherman", regardless of
its <BR>rantings. Eventually it will catch on and disappear along with
its <BR>predecessor, The Monitor.<BR><BR>Let's keep this virtual town hall
meeting alive.<BR><BR>In the interim . . .<BR><BR>Seey at Farmers' Market,
Moscow.<BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow,
Idaho<BR><BR><BR>---------------------------------------------<BR>This message
was sent by First Step
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