[ . . . still on the run here, still skimming the list quickly . . . ]
For the record, Mike Lorry's post seems to be factually correct as a
recitation of the "list history" involved in the discussion of guns.
Thank you, Mike, for your efforts in maintaining a civil tone on the list.
Greg Burch
Vice-President, Extropy Institute
http://www.gregburch.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Lorrey" <mlorrey@datamann.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 8:06 PM
Subject: Exi-Freedom is for gun discussions...
> As a note to new list members, a couple years ago, I created the
> exi-freedom email list at eGroups (now yahoogroups) for people who want
> to freely discuss ANY freedom enhancing technology, past, present, or
> future.
>
> This was in response to a call by Greg Burch to have a one month
> moratorium on posts containing any discussion involving the dreaded and
> scary word 'gun', [snip]
>
> For the record, gun topics have not been permanently banned outright
> from the extropians list. Max More and Greg Burch asked me, and I
> agreed, to encourage such discussions as they arise to move to the
> exi-freedom list, but there is not, nor has there been since that
> moratorium ended, a formal ban. [snip]
>
> Mike Lorrey
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