From: Rich Graves <rcgraves@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 1996 14:40:13 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Dr. Vulis is not on cypherpunks any more [VULIS]
Message-ID: <199611052238.RAA10139@spirit.hks.net>
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Igor Chudov @ home wrote:
> 
> I guess libertarian philosophy permits operating a private mailing
> list and imposing whatever rules the host deems necessary to invent.

Clearly.

And contractural principles suggest that there should be transparency in 
those rules.

> The question is, can this ist be called a free medium for exchange of
> ideas, or not. My answer is no.

I say you're wrong. Vulis has been denied nothing but the dignity of 
reading the list under his own name. He still has freedom to read under 
a pseudonym, and he still has freedom to post under his own name, or any 
other.

> Moderated forums might create some utility (by saving the time of
> their participants, for example), but they should identify themselves
> as such.

Such as by notifying the list that exactly one particularly obnoxious 
member has been kicked off, and allowing *unlimited* discussion on the 
list about the impact of doing so? I think this is working.

- -rich
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