From the cyberdesk of: Harvey Thornburg
quoted 6 lines I never said I was _against_ the positions presented in the post (although it> I never said I was _against_ the positions presented in the post (although it
> _did_ oversimplify things tremendously). My objection was to the use of the
> mailing list for discussing this matter, which has nothing to do with raves
> or idm, and more deeply the underlying assumption that just because we
> associate somewhat with the "rave" culture we would all homogenously hold
> that view.
It also holds that we subscribers are all US citizens who are affected by
this law. Not necessarily are the set of subscribers to this list a subset
of the set of US Citizens. i.e. the non-US members could probably care less.
But, then again, he did mention before-hand the off-topic nature of the
post, and if you were disinclined to read it, the "D" key was only right in
front of your finger....
Personally, I'll let it slide. It's not like we get twenty or thirty of
those a week on the list here.
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