[X4U] OT: Can we sell stuff on this list?

[Ed Gould]

On Jul 7, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Shawn King wrote:
-----------SNIP
>
> There is no "freedom of speech" on a mailing list. To paraphrase,  
> "we post
> at the pleasure of the ListMom". If the ListMom dictates we must  
> all append
> "The ListMom is God" at the beginning and end of each post, we must  
> do so or
> leave the list.
>
> If he wants to sell his stuff on the list and not allow anyone else  
> to sell
> their stuff, that's his prerogative. Just as it is ours to not like  
> his
> rules and leave the list - possibly to start our own.
>
> I'll repeat - His List, His Rules. QED.
---------SNIP

True at the same time the list can move someplace else which is not a  
dictatorship.

Ed