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Lion
Dear List readers,
First, my apologies for the message you will have received from an
address in Indiana flaming someone in the UK with the user ID of Lion.
I will write to the author of the letter asking him to refrain from
posting like that to the entire list.
As not everyone is familiar with how the BurmaNet mailing list is set
up, let me post this reminder. The BurmaNet list is set up to exchange
information and opinions about Burma. If you post articles about other
subjects, I will remind you that they are off-topic. If you insist on
posting about who killed JFK (as someone recently did) and aren't
prepared to assert that it had something, anything at all, to do with
Burma, I will complain to your system administrator and block further
postings to the list.
The recent flaming is not offensive because of the views expressed,
but because they are expressed in a way that is childish. To recap, Lion
asserted that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was objectionable and Tmyint
suggested that Lion could do things to himself which are more
appropriately covered in one of the alt.sex newsgroups.
If subscribers want to flame each other, please do one of two
things. Either put some effort into writing a flame worth sending to
several hundred people, or if you are not up to this, take the
conversation over to soc.culture.burma or alt.flame. The newsgroups are
places of completely free speech (which is why so few people spend much time
listening to the few who spend so much time talking in them).
There is a related issue which several subscribers have raised. Some
readers object to having SLORC messages on the BurmaNet (of which
Lion's pretty clearly is). The reason that SLORC messages are carried
is because some of them shed light on how the SLORC operates. For
Burmese who have lived in Burma for any length of time, it is probably
no great mystery. But for outsiders, the SLORC mindset is difficult to
understand and unless viewed first hand, is hard to believe exists this
late in the twentieth centry.
Beyond the curiousity value, their postings give some hints about
what is happening inside Burma. For example, the current round of
letters and articles bashing Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and others are of
recent origin. Something important is happening and Tmyint
would be of more help to the net if he put his efforts toward explaining
what the SLORC is doing rather than firing off obscene letters.
The new moderated mailing list should be operational in about 72
hours, barring more technical problems. Readers will be given the
option of switching over once the new list is on-line. Finally, for
those who insist on flaming, BurmaNet will be setting up a mailing
address for notes sent to the SLORC. The address will be
khin.nyunt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Please don't bother trying it yet
because it isn't ready and don't ask how it's done.
Strider