[PEN-L:11933] Discontinuation Of Anti-North Military Drills Urged
Pyongyang, August 21 (KCNA) -- Minju Joson today comments on the adventurous joint military manoeuvres codenamed "Ulji Focus Lens" which started in south Korea early on August 18. The daily says the U.S.-south Korea manoeuvres are increasing tension and the danger of a war against the north in the Korean Peninsula. It says: The manoeuvres include the "Ulji" drill involving the south Korean puppet army, "Administration" and civilians and the "Focus Lens" exercise of U.S. Forces and south Korean puppet army. Participating in the manoeuvres are a large number of south korean troops and "civilian defence corps" members as well as U.S. troops present in south Korea and from the U.S. mainland. The war gamble, as large as the "Team Spirit" exercises in scale, content and danger, proves that what exists in the Korean Peninsula is just threat from the south, not threat from the north. We will never allow others to infringe upon our sovereignty and undermine our socialism but deal a heavy blow at the provokers. The U.S. and south Korean war maniacs must stop the military exercises at once. KCNA Shawgi Tell Graduate School of Education University at Buffalo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:11932] Re: Steve Fraser's e-mail address
Teamsters will have to re-run President and officers elections. Elaine Original message The elections officer for the Teamsters has just brought down her decision --- to "refuse to certify the election" of officers which was held last fall, and she has ordered "a rerun election for all positions except the Central Region Vice Presidents and the President of Teamsters Canada." (The President of Teamsters Canada, Louis LaCroix, was on both the Carey and Hoffa slate, and unopposed, and the Central Region Vice Presidents were on the Hoffa slate). The elections officer, further held that "because there is no evidence that Carey or any member of his slate knew of or participated in the various improper fundraising schemes, disqualification is not warranted." Finally, while she hasn't yet said when this election will be run -- though one case assume this fall -- she has petitioned the courts for tighter rules. "Simultaneous with the issuance of the decision, the Election Officer has made an application to the US District Court for approval of a Proposed Rerun Election Plan. The proposed plan includes supplemental nominations, the prohibition of non-member contributions, a $ 1,000 limite on member contributions and a $ 5,000 limit on candidate contributions, and more frequent and detailed reporting requirements." The reasoning she gives for ordering the new election is that "given the small margins between the winning candidates on the Carey slate and the losing candidates on the Hoffa slate, the Teamsters for a Corruption Free Union funded mailings could have persuaded at least a small percentage of Carey slate supporters to cast their ballots and therefore may have affected the outcome of the International officer election." "In ordering a rerun election, the Election Officer recognizes the hardship on the candidates who just went throught an expensive two-year campaign and the disruption to the institution as many of its leaders become diverted from the central work of the Union. The Election Officer finds, however, that the members cannot have confidence in their union or its leaders if they see their choice of officers has been manipulated by outsiders. They cannot have confidence in the Consent Decree if the Court officers do not take effective action to prevent and remedy such misconduct." So, it looks like its elections time in the Teamsters again. Elaine Bernard Harvard Trade Union Program [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:11931] Re: Visit pen-l, see the pyramids
Up till now, the level of spam was low. I had pen-l set so that anybody could post to us. We got only a handful of spams, and some activist outsiders were able to tell us things of interest. I had not made that feature public, but it did help to keep pen-l a bit more open. So now, we have the settings changed. Of course, somebody can, and this has already occurred, signed on just to spam. I do not wish to interrogate all applicants at this time. As a result, people can join pen-l under false pretenses, as Karl C. did a week or so ago. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PEN-L:11930] Re: Visit pen-l, see the pyramids
On Thu, August 21, 1997 at 21:39:10 (-0700) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Speaking at some possible peril to myself as a non-academic lurker, >I suggest that this list, whose server apparently is automatic, >is far too easily misused. Do we really want pyramid schemes >like #93 carefully explained to us on this list, as if they >were entirely new in concept? Actually, the level of SPAM on this list is remarkably low. We are lucky we haven't been hit more by this sort of junk. >Unless the moderator acts now to alter the means and standards of posting, >this list will soon go the way of Usenet, which is one ghastly fate. As Michael pointed out in May, stopping spam is difficult. Active moderation of this list would be quite time-consuming. I suggest a group effort on the part of PEN-L folks to investigate this topic. I posted a few resources for those interested, which I'll repeat here. You might visit CAUCE's (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email) site at http://www.cauce.org/ or The Consumer Information Organization at http://consumer-info.org. My company, Dejanews, is working on making Usenet once again a livable place to have discussions. The technical issues are quite difficult---filtering works only to a degree, and moderation is expensive and/or time-consuming, even for a single list. The only way to address this, in my opinion, is to attack it legally. Even a simple requirement that all commercial postings or e-mail be reliably and "clearly" (to a computer) labeled would make the problem trivial to control with automatic filters. Bill
