21 minutes after getting that email, I received an apology:
"We just sent the below email and believe that the filter used to
send the mailing to overdue accounts was either filtered wrongly
or is broken. In either case, if you think you received the below
email in error please ignore.
"We are very sorry for any confusion of inconvenience.
"Chris Spannos / ZNet"
Their systems and processes are no doubt very creaky, and I think the word "obnoxious" could be applied to a bunch of things they do... But this seems to be an honest error and they quickly apologized.
As for reprinting without permission... I can imagine that many would find that really annoying, but do members of this mailinglist ask permission when reprinting someone's entire article, publicly archiving it? (Or maybe I'm missing something?)
All the best, Tj
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 7:48 PM, <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> Yeah, it's not like the right has a monopoly on self-righteousness; lefties do their share...
>
> Joanna
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 8:23:46 AM
> Subject: [lbo-talk] Znet writes
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> Damn, for a bunch of post-capitalist practical utopians, these people are obnoxious. I've never given these guys a dime - Michael Albert has reprinted enough of my pieces without bothering to ask that I feel like I've contributed plenty. I've gotten more polite overdue notices from American Express - and in that case, I actually did owe them money.
>
> Doug
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