I should add that not only does Jon Noring censor me to a greater extent that I am aware of him censoring any others, he also makes efforts to get me censored on other lists by starting flame wars and then he is the first to say that _I_ am the cause. By the way, this is common practice among flamers. Lately my subscription underwent a dozen changes for a week's period and I mentioned this multiple times, but have had no responses. The result has been that I am not heard there today. There is always the possibility of starting an eBook list that does not have such "moderation" techniques, but something else would have to be done to keep that sort of thing from happening. . . . Perhaps just an automated warning that precedes notes from "moderated" individuals that says things like: "Jon Noring would like to warn you that this message is from someone he considers to be infra dignatorum." ;-) mh On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
jon noring said:
Michael Hart is on moderation, as most of the others on TeBC.
unless something has changed recently, the headers clearly show michael's posts have had to be "approved" before posting.
except for the occasional new subscriber, nobody else's headers show such "approval" was required before the message was posted.
whether this enforced moderation constitutes "censorship" or not depends on how we choose to define the word. but my best guess is that michael feels that his voice is being silenced...
and of course i've been _banned_outright_ from jon's listserve, for many years now. he will tell you that's because i was "rude" or some such nonsense. everyone knows it's because he wanted to silence me, because my comments gummed up his hype machine.
-bowerbird