I agree Pound would have loved email. In fact I am sure he would have been a
regular net nuisance! I can image "Block Sender" buttons being hit in
government departments all over the world ...
 
I agree the list shouldn't be censored. Mind you Pound was sensitive about
using what the French call "gros mots"; according to Olson, after Pound had
let such a word slip out on one of Olson's visits to St Elizabeth's, he
(Pound) immediately dashed out of his room to check that no "ladies" in the
vicinity had overheard him. I like this old-fashioned side of Pound, faintly
absurd though it seems to us now.
 
Richard Edwards
 
 
>From: "Booth, Christopher" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
>  <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: know thy kulture 101
>Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 16:41:04 -0400
>
>Hear, hear!
>
>Spoken in the spirit of _Il Miglior Fabbro_ himself. [He would have LOVED
>email.] {Pardon the shouting   ;-)  }
>
>Chris Booth
>
> > ----------
> > From:         Burt Hatlen
> > Reply To:     Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine
> > Sent:         Tuesday, October 19, 1999 2:04 PM
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      Re: know thy kulture 101
> >
> > I am the "owner" of the Pound list.  I don't know the technical
> > terminology, so please excuse any non-cypberspeak locutions in what
> > follows.  Anyway:  I do not screen any of the messages that appear on
> > the list.  I wouldn't know how to screen them, even if I wanted to,
> > although I suppose that someone on the technical support staff here at
> > the University of Maine could help me out, if I asked.  But I began the
> > list with the understanding that anyone who wanted access to it would
> > have such access, and I remain committed to that principle. Better no
> > list at all than one that is subject to the control of one individual.
> > I certainly found the posting in question offensive.  I have found
> > several other postings offensive, over the history of the list. I find
> > a significant potion of Pound's own pronouncements offensive. But I
> > don't believe that I have the right to censor Pound or the contributors
> > to this list.
> >
> > Burt Hatlen
> >
 
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