Michael, Michael is, in my book providing a valuable service in a responsible fahion. For those who do not wish to look at his messages, it should take no more than a milisecond to delete his messages. Surely there are more important things to get worked up over than Michael's posting *informative* articles about the UPS workers' strike, like, say, the strike itself? Thank you Michael for the time spent sending off posts on the strike. My two cents worth Steve On Sat, 16 Aug 1997, Michael Perelman wrote: > I am getting very positive feedback about Michael E.'s UPS postings, > plus a couple of complaints about the volume that one individual is > sending. > > My feeling is that the UPS strike is an exceptional opportunity. They > union actually has a chance of winning something -- and with public > support. > > Harry Cleaver was doing something similar -- on a smaller scale with > Chiapas, but now he uses the web and his own list -- which is probably > the appropriate way to go. > > I do wish that someone had the time and the expertise to create a web > site for pen-l -- so that we could have information such as Michael is > providing in a handier form. > > Also, I would like to know if my sample is biased -- if more of you > think that the volume of Michael's postings are burdensome, or if you > appreciate the service he is performing. I am only raising the question > because 1) it has been posed to me and 2) I would like to know how to > make the list as useful as possible. > > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA 95929 > > Tel. 916-898-5321 > E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >