At 05:05 PM 4/8/98 -0400, you wrote:
 
Hi Aaron & Bee Friends,
 
I guess I am about the only bee person in the world that enjoys the list
for all the wrong reasons which brings on the moderation of anyone's post.
 
I want to know what other bee people think, matters little to me if they
make it in a personal attack on me or mis quote, mis spell or mis interpret
what the original thought was. Sad to see any more political correctness
imposed on beekeepers for any reason, especially so for a list that
ordinates in the USA...be it so it also is a duplication of what Allen is
doing for those who don't want for whatever reason to sift the chaff from
the grain.
 
I know it bothers some that I write to much or to long, for this I
apologize to all, but what I have to say I have never learned how to be any
other way then what I am. I also know how some are much bothered by errors
in posting to the list. I look at it as part of the growing process of
individual posters and want to see nothing done that would prevent anyone
from making those early posts even if it means having posts in error.. Life
is not all that un cluttered and why should this list be any different.
 
Posters and readers do come and go on this or any list. Maybe they don't
find what they are looking for, more times then not if they would take the
time to post to the list themselves they would find out better what others
are interested in and maybe even some with common interests. But that's the
way it is, any list, echo, or news group is going to have a high percentage
of "readers" and they will drop in and out at will. If everyone who reads
this list were to post on any one subject the list would crash from the
shock of the overload, and it has with a lot fewer posters in the past.
 
I appreciate the job of list owner and you have been a good one and I
believe what ever you do as for as trying to moderate this list will also
be done well, but even the re mailing or mail back of posts which are
thought to have been posted  in error is an open door to censorship. I
believe it is much better to do these things in the open even if it does
add to the bulk of the mail as it also lets all of us see what is expected
of us so we do not make the same errors. None of us know it all, yet.
 
Hope this was not too long. But if you are calling for a vote I vote NO
censorship no matter how it is labeled.
 
ttul, Andy-
Los Banos, California
 
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