tonyw@ubvax.UUCP (Tony Wuersch) (02/21/86)
This article on the Church versus the Sandinistas is very interesting
and I hope we see more committed, opinionated stuff like this. (Maybe
some Saul Landau stuff on the bourgeoisie versus the sandinistas?)
This is also a notice of goodbye. I've taken a job in Zurich,
Switzerland, and will leave the net Mar. 7. At least net.politics
and related newsgroups reputed to have low signal-to-noise ratios.
I'll try to obtain a net address, but I can't guarantee success.
I've appreciated the net a lot, not always for what it's taught me
about the effect of sampling biases on communication, but for all
the fine, honest, concerned, intelligent people I've been able to
correspond and frequently debate with.
I believe in the virtue of good writing and in developing political
and social ideals in public, open arenas. There really are so few
forums for the discussion of serious topics by anyone but those
professionally involved in academia, politics, or journalism, it's a
crying shame. I've cleared up and rethought many of my judgments with
the help of and sometimes initiated by opinions on the net.
To name a few among the many, I've especially appreciated the articles
of Gabor Fencsik, Laura Creighton, Ray Chen, Jan Wasilewski, Richard
Carnes, Jodi Patilla, Jeff Myers, Oded Feingold, Ellen Eades, Cheryl Stewart,
Annadiana Beaver, Linda Seltzer, Ron Rizzo, Steve Dyer, Ray Levasseur,
Moira Mallison, Baba ROM Dass, Piotr Berman, Yosi Hoshen, and Heather
Emanuel, among many others (no order). I *know* I've forgotten others.
I hope the net grows, and I'll do what I can to help. Somebody oughta
make some money for themselves by writing a book about it.
Tony Wuersch
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