[Buddha-l] (Steve) Lane letter

[Richard Hayes]

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:06:48 -0400
  SJZiobro at cs.com wrote:

> This is a reasonable view.  On the other hand, Steve's 
>main complaint is that many of his posts responding to 
>political remarks by Richard or other liberally minded 
>posters were not sent to the list.  It is reasonable to 
>expect that they would be, if only to give all posters an 
>equal voice.

This is now and always has been the policy on buddha-l. No 
message is ever rejected because any of the moderators 
disagree with the opinions expressed in it. Very few 
messages are rejected for any reason at all, unless they 
violate the guidelines of decorum and courtesy that have 
are publicly posted. I'm even pretty lenient about that, 
since I myself am often aggressive and have been perceived 
by some as rude.

I would strongly urge everyone not to bother with this 
issue. My departmental chairman is out of town and has no 
time to deal with a flood of letters. He knows what I 
teach in the classroom, because we has attended some of 
the courses I have taught, and we get extensive comments 
from students. He can sort out what I teach in the 
classroom from what I say on the Internet. Most of the 
politicians in the state of New Mexico are quite familiar 
with my views, since I write to them regularly. So I am in 
no need of being defended, but I do appreciate people's 
concern.

May I suggest buddha-l now we returned to the purpose for 
which it is intended: the discussion of buddhism.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico