please, no more hate mail on Pynchon-L

[David Morris]

>From: "Keith McMullen" <keithsz at concentric.net>
>
>Don't let Millison run you off the list please. Filter him.
>

Consider this: this event, however you want to characterize it, has 
precipitated the first (to my knowledge) censorship of the P-list.  That is 
not a trivial thing.  Now we have members being threatened with banishment 
by the hosts.  And not a few of us have been accused of threatening Doug, 
which I have never done.  Insults?  I have given him many.  So I guess the 
still unwritten rules about acceptable posts must begin with "no flaming," 
but we all know how freely posts are called flames by some.

I am somewhat stunned by these last two days, and have only been able to 
follow these happenings at the bedtime end of my day.  People are leaving 
for fear of lawsuits and others after having been accused of being the same 
person being threatened with a lawsuit.  And at the center of this maelstrom 
(and this is not an insult, just the facts) is Millison.  That seems a 
significant fact from my perspective.

Your Call,
David Morris

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