The [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:anointed@ sweetbarkingcheese.com) sneering committee met at the Red Light District outdoor cafe last night. of course, I wasn't invited, but the I had somebody up in a tree posing as a woodpecker and taking notes. The real reason for starting a new list, all devotees of deliberative democracy will be happy to hear, is not to exclude Glenn, eliminate people who Phil Forrest claims "spew filth," or engage in what Brian Siano judges to be "mean-spirited rants." It's what the technocrats would call "enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio" by cutting down on repetition and on topics particular individuals don't care about (like UCD or the NID, whether Penn is a 750- or 900-lb gorilla, or at which Green Line the gang will assemble before walking over to the University City Chamber Ensemble and String Band Concert at the First Crustacean Church). This will leave the bandwidth (and participants email in-boxes) free for topics in which they're really interested. So, to carry this idea even further, while avoiding some of the nasty and wholly-fabricated accusations of elitism, discrimination, social injustice, know-nothingism, etc that have been circulating, the new sweetbarkingcheese.com list has been subdivided so people can join just those segments in which they're interested. There will be a comment period during which people (except, of course, for Glenn, who's been banned by Kyle) can make suggestions before the actual menu of lists is launched. Proposals so far -- and they're meant to be self-explanatory -- are: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Always at your service & ready for a dialog, Al Krigman
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