I'll make this even briefer.  no on, that's NO ONE, has seriously suggested
that Wei be silenced.  I repeat, NO ONE!  Bert has it right -- things have to
work themselves out with out the impetous of the moderator's boot:  the
Buffalo list has committed suicide, at the level of integrity, by it's
"moderating."  folks have every right to bitch when the list conversation is
being dominated by one person, particularly when that person is engaged in a
monotone.  I would have preferred that all of the personal messages that I've
posted to the list could have been backchannel, but brother Wei doesn't allow
that -- and on most lists, this is considered a serious breach of
n'etiquette.

jb....


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<< I'll make this brief. Wei hasn't attempted to silence anyone. If anything,
 Wei's the one who has been encouraged to shut up. There is, I understand, a
 finite limit on disk space that the list messages can occupy, and only in
 that sense could Wei possibly be accused of hogging bandwidth, so to speak.
 Wei is probably unaware of this technological limitation, since it was
 announced before his arrival, IIRC. I look forward to contributions from
 scholars who have thought about Pound's poetry and politics for a long time'
 nothing's been stopping them from contributing to the discussion except
 perhaps a desire not to engage in impromptu exchanges which are sometimes
 too full of the sound and the fury. I look forward to Wei's relentless
 pursuit of the truth as he sees it. I prefer not to engage in name-calling,
 but would also defend Deporre's right to call Wei an "EFFing git" if it
 pleases him to do so.  I would bet a dollar that Wei would prefer to be
 called such a name to Deporres being restricted in any way in matters of
 free speech.

 Tim Romano

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