The future of the list -- nanny time?

[Vaska]

>From Harrison: 
>>Maybe I'm wrong.
>
>You couldn't be _righter_, V. It's already happened with me: I don't
>imagine you're counting or anything, but I haven't been able to post
>*anything whatsoever* since this moderator flap began, owing to a sudden
>onset of crippling self-consciousness: 

I just had an off-list message on this subject and thought of replying that,
for starters, and at least in my experience [i.e. since last October], most
of the *women* on this list make very infreqent contributions.  Can't speak
for them, and perhaps some will disagree, but I do suspect that at least for
some of my sisters on this list, it is a case of a strongly entrenched,
hard-to-fight and socially-induced self-consciousness about speaking in
public.  Add a "supervising agent" to all that and I hate to think what
might happen.  Would we ever hear from Dana, again, for example?  I wonder.

Those of you who've known me since last Fall, may have noticed that I've
been unusually active in the last 3-4 weeks [and that's been by way of a
major personal victory over my own over-active super-ego].  No doubt, some
of you think I'm overdoing it, in fact.  I myself cringe whenever I see just
how often my name has appeared on this list of late: and then have to go and
count the individual guys' names -- just to keep things in perspective....
It helps.

Harrison now tells us how a mere possibility of "control from above" affects
a man.  Has already affected him, for one.  That crippling of inner freedom
and the damage it would do to our discourse here is exactly what I'm afraid
of.  And the reason I quoted Rushdie last night.

Vaska