Cohousing-L Mailing List: borderline off topic-list welcomingness and politeness -- Pattee

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

christine pattee C2pattee [at] aol.com
is the author of the message below. Due to a problem,
it was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> 
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whoa! another case where different messages seem to come from the same words. 

i didn't mean YOU were off topic. i can't remember who first put that term 
in the subject heading, but i would hope that no one on this list would even 
consider that a discussion of child molestation, in cohousing or out of it, 
would be inappropriate for this list.

christine pattee
greater hartford cohousing


> From: "Robin Covington" <robcov [at] hotmail.com>
> To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_borderline off topic-list welcomingness and politeness 
> -- Pattee
> Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 08:52:49 -0800
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
> 
> Hi Christine:  I guess the thing to examine is 'off-topic'.  My vision of 
> cohousing - (and at this point I must confess that obviously what I think 
> of 
> community living is all in my head and heart; I have no concrete knowledge 
> of the actuality of the rules, guidelines, etc. as they pertain to a 
> website, or to individual communities) - is that no question is off base - 
> no idea unimportant, no topic sacrosanct.  That is what is attractive to me 
> 
> about living in a community of people - it would be INTERESTING, diverse, 
> thought provoking...I want my little family to be enlarged and  engaged by 
> people and by life.


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