[ELECTRON] separate political mailing list?

[magnus at ditch.org.uk]

> why don't we just disregard the politics altogether? Just because I'm
> interested in open source software does not automatically mean I wish to
> save the rain forest, adopt a panda or indeed 'smash the state'. The
> recent
> uprising(?) of the 99% seems to have the air of a 'Citizen Smith' remake,
> albeit with facebook replacing soapboxes - so please, if just for
>  intellectual refuge, lets leave the politics to the armchair pundits and
> 1st year social studies students, and get back to what the club was setup
> for.

This isn't the case. One of the original purposes for the club was to
increase the diversity of visitors to the CCA. Myself, I am for a
diversity of views on this list. I am not in favour of axe grinding or
intolerant views.

Rgds,

Magnus

>
> On 29 January 2012 23:15, James Beeley <james.beeley at ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd rather the political stuff went onto a separate list. I'm following
>> the reprap discussion with great interest, but I really don't want to
>> read about anarchism and the like.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 22:38 +0000, Benjamin Dembroski wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > Lately, there's been a bunch of emails regarding the reprap stuff.  It
>> sounds like things are progressing, and sounds like a very interesting
>> and
>> worthwhile project.  However, The discussion is getting increasingly
>> specialised.
>> >
>> > Given the number of emails, and that they are really only pertinent to
>> a
>> subset of EC members, would it make sense to make a separate mailing
>> list
>> to keep the noise down on the general EC list?
>> >
>> > Just a thought,
>> > Ben D.
>> >
>> >
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