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 > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com