>Dear Mr. Henwood,
>
>Please cancel my subscription to Left Business Observer. After following
>your lbo-talk thread long enough to get a clearer understanding of what
>you consider to be political discourse I've found I've had enough.
>
>The red-baiting of Harry Dexter White was the last straw.
This is someone who's received almost 50 issues of LBO in his subscription. When I pointed out that he was cancelling for something someone else said, not me, and that I'd even made fun of the idea, I got this response:
> It's not at all odd. You exercise editorial control over your
>thread. You permitted red-baiting of Harry Dexter White to take place on
>your thread. That shows me that you can't tell the difference between
>giving people a forum to discuss ideas and giving people a forum for
>hate mongering. It's a failure of judgement Doug. These red-baiters are
>not your friends. You don't have to help them to redbait people by
>giving them a forum for their hate mongering. Obviously I made a mistake
>when I subscribed to your publication.
How about that?
So Barkley, you owe me some compensation!
Doug