To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: list Dear PEN-l: (I guess I'm speaking to Michael?) I'd like to get on your PEN-l list. Please tell me how. [See discussion below for why I have not asked to join previously.] Gracias, --- Curtis Previous message(s): Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 22:22:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Revolt of the Haves To: Curtis Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for the post, which I read. Since I am on the list, why send it to me especially? --Justin Date: Thu, 11 May 1995 22:22:53 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Revolt of the Haves To: Curtis Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Thanks for the post, which I read. Since I am on the list, why >send it to >me especially? Funny you should ask. I am a writer (on economics). I have been on PeaceNet now since 1993, I quess, with my old floppy drive XT. An activist friend sort of pushed me on to PeaceNet. At the time I didn't even know what the internet was. I considered myself a writer, the computer was my typewriter, and I was on the cutting edge of modern computer technology because I knew WordPerfect. It used to be that when I got sick and tired of writing I'd tune in to PEN-l. It was sort of my TV set. So, I never joined any list. Didn't know or care what a list was. Didn't care about posting anything. Just wanted to listen. Well, all that's changed since I got into the big time with my new 486DX2 last fall. My writing project got too big to publish in paper without a huge expense, so I stumbled into my own conference <econ.democracy>. See the introduction to it. Then I was told I was supposed to "advertise" my conference. To whom? Well, the only people I "knew" were the ones I had read and downloaded on PEN-l. They didn't know me. I didn't post or even try to post. Furthermore, most of them are at universities. I am not. However, I have recently been in contact with certain of these professors re my conference and I have been in correspondence with them individually through their e-mail addresses. When I saw your name, it seemed to me that you were a new kid on the block, because I hadn't seen you post before. In the second place, when I saw your address with "freenet" in it, it rang a bell. Last year I took a course on the internet given by grad students from the U.C. Berkeley library school and they were big on the freenets. We tuned into the one in Cleveland. I figured that someone on a freenet just might be interested in my "constitution for a democratic economy." So, that's why I contacted you. At any rate, I have never joined any "list". For some reason it has lain in the back of my mind that the bitlist associated with PEN would probably be restricted to academic economists, but I never bothered to ask. Since you raised the question in my mind, let me ask you, how did you get on the "list"? Does it cost money? How much? How did you find out? I already pay PeaceNet at least $25.00 mo. If I want to post in the PEN conference I send my post to the moderator MichaelP at Chico State. If I received all those posts on the PEN in my mailbox as a result of being on some list, my mailbox would be flooded. So, now you tell me. What advantages do you get from being on the list? How do you get on? Maybe I should get on. Awaiting enlightenment. --- Curtis. Fri, 12 May 1995 11:25:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 11:22:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Justin Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Lists To: Curtis Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The list is free and has interesting information and useful discussion. E-mail the header address to ask how to get on. Your mailbox will not "flooded" and you can of course delete anything you don;t want to read or keep. I'm not at a university this year either--I'm starting law school in the fall, though. --Justin Schwartz
