Dmitri Nabokov is quite correct in his
statement that he had no role in the curtailment of the political
thread of some months ago. Nor does he in any sense control the list. I have run
many postings that I know he finds distasteful. While I confess to
considerable discomfort about ad hominem comments by DN and other
contributors, I have (sometimes unhappily) run them in an attempt to be fair to
all parties. I ask that all contributors avoid invective. In all-to-rare cases I
have asked contributors to tone down their more personal remarks.
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