Filtering off-topic material

["Mark Antell, editor CitizenPowerMagazine.net" <citizenp(at)citizenpowermagazine.net>]

Hi,
I'm ok on blocking off-topic materials. The stuff from Sabzali Khan, for
example, is authoritarian utopianism that doesn't have much to do with
direct democracy.
I can see though where it's hard, or even unfair, to put that filtering
responsibility on a couple of webmasters. This kind of situation points
up one of the many benefits of a charter. A charter would broadly define
direct democracy and would limit active membership to those espousing
direct democracy.
Mark Antell
PS. For those interested in a charter may I direct your attention to a
note I posted on 1/3/07? Thanks

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WDDM webmaster wrote:

> Hi!
> Do you want to receive e-mails, like the one attached, from this
> Sabzali Khan? I personally think that what he promotes is not
> compatible at all with our promotion of direct democracy in why
> everybody has equal voice and equal potential for development.
> He divides people into classes between which there is hardly possible
> any movement (that was my conclusion after discussion with him in
> another forum). In his system, people are more or less forced to stay
> forever in the class in which they are born.
> It's not just professional associations what he is talking about, in
> his system every class' influence on the governance of a society is
> not equal.
> I've ignored his postings to this list in the past, explained to him
> why I did it (see above), but he keeps sending postings now and then
> again.
> What am I (or Bruce, who has been actually doing most moderation
> recently) supposed to do with them? Continue to ignore them?
> This is his classification of people:
>
> > (P-I) Thinkers Types of Citizens.
> > Bar Associations, Barristers Associations
> > and Chamber Associations etc.
>
>
> > (P-II) Curative types of Citizens.
> > Doctor’s / Surgeon’s Associations, Nurse Unions and
> > Paramedical Staff Association/Unions etc
>
>
> > (P-III) Technical types of Citizens
> > Engineer’s Councils/Associations etc, Technical Staff
> > Unions etc.
>
>
> > (P-IV) Instructive types of Citizens. Lecturers/Teachers
> > Associations/Unions, Students
> > Unions etc
>
>
> > (P-V) Cultivator types of Citizens.
> > Tenants /Cultivators Unions and Farmer
> > Associations/ Unions etc
>
>
> > (P-VI) Labor types of Citizens.
> > Trade Unions of Labors and organizations etc
>
>
> > (P-VII) Protective types of Citizens.
> > Retired Army, Navy, Air Force Officials / Officers
> > Association /Foundation/Organizations etc Police,
> > Fire Brigade, Cops, Militia, Scouts, Marines, FBI,
> > CIA, Investigations Officers, cops etc
> > & Organizations.
>
>
> > (P-VIII) Entertainment producers’ types of Citizens.
> > Players Associations/Unions, Artists organizations /Associations,
> > Musical Unions/Organizations, Journalists Unions/Organizations etc.
>
>
> > (P-IX) Resourceful types of Citizens.
> > Chamber of Commerce Organizations, Bankers Associations, Traders
> > Associations, Investors Associations etc
>
> Mirek
>
> P.S. Although the moderation of this list was apparently helpful, the
> fact that it is done by one or two people is rather undemocratic. We
> should better move on to "collective moderation", something similar to
> what is done at kuro5hin,
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/?op=special;page=moderation#whatiseditqueue
> ??????