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 >