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Suzanne,
Your response is dismissive and insulting. And who is the "we" in "we encourage you to join one or more national groups." First of all, you and you alone are the sole decider of what is posted on BayAreaMCSList, so who is the we you are talking about?
Furthermore, my offer of Bay Leaves to people attending the LOCAL EHN meeting is not a NATIONAL issue. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about my post that was not local and or MCS related. It was no less either of these criteria than my "For Sale" post just a day or two earlier.
Further the local pesticide-related [Alameda County] email that you refused to post from another local MCS member the other day also met your deminis criteria and yet you also refused to post that. Pesticide is a huge MCS-related issue and the fact that the issue concerned the Bay Area made it
local.
Last year you refused to post an email from another member requesting assistance and instead argued extensively with this person about her changing the content of the email, which she did. Then because you didn't like those changes, you made your own changes to reflect what you thought it should say. You also did that to one of my emails. You've refused to post my emails in the past for reasons that I could never figure out stating that "people on the list are too sick." That is not a good reason to not post messages. Even sick people (and we all fall into that category) have the ability to decide what to read and what not to read. So all of this begs the question of just how many other people's relevant emails has your "mood at the moment" decision making process weeded out that we would be interested in reading about?
When you selectively decide what
does and does not constitute your personal ever changing definiton of what is "local and MCS-related" how can anyone guess what may or may not fit into that category. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to your decision making process other than your own mood at the moment.
MCS lists are here to serve the MCS community and your discriminatory tactics in no way serves this local MCS community to the extent that it could. This list could be something truly powerful and empowering, which you could be proud of, instead it appears you have turned in into your own little power trip. What a pity.
If people want to join a list where honest and open discussions can take place and you can post without having your posts changed or the owner refusing to post them, I invite you to join the other local list - BayCanaryGrapvine Yahoo group.
Betty
suzanneio@... wrote:
Hi Betty,Posts that are not both local and MCS-related are screened out. For general MCS information or chat we encourage you to join one or more of the national groups.Suzanne-----Original Message-----
From: Betty Kreeger [mailto:bjkreeger@...]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2007 5:01 PM
To: Suzanne Olson
Subject: Bay LeavesSuzanne,On Tuesday I sent the following email to BayAreaMCSList for posting. I note that you have posted several messages of "others" since I sent this to the group. However, you have not posted my offer of Bay Leaves. Since this message in no way violates your "new criteria" for posting to the group, I am mystified as to why you have not posted it.Just so you know, I have blind copied this message to many of the people on the list, and I think we all deserve an answer as to why you are selectively screening out messages that are of the benefit to everyone in the local MCS community.The Tuesday post is as follows:Hi everyone.....Would anyone like some fresh Bay Leaves?There is this gigantic Bay tree across the street from me. They never pesticide/insecticide this tree so while not technically organic, the City does not use pesticide/insecticide on it. I use these regularly for soups, and since I just bought a dehydrator I'm going to dehydrate some too.Please email me directly if you would like to have some of these aromatic leaves and I'll bring a bunch to the meeting on Saturday.BettyBetty"Be the change you wish to see in the world. "(Mahatma Gandhi)
Betty
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