[Bmi] I was banned from connectionist mailing list?

[Tucker Balch]

An article like 

	"The 5th Open Letter to the U.S. President Obama: Bombing ISIS is a Strategic Mistake” 

is not appropriate for an academic research email list.  

Tucker

Ben Goertzel <ben at goertzel.org> wrote:

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> I agree with Joanna.
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> I can see why the list moderators would consider the TOC of
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> http://www.brain-mind-magazine.org/
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> off-topic since it seems to mainly be about politics rather than
> connectionist scientific material.
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> However, I feel they should have warned you of their opinion first
> rather than banning you summarily as you report they have done....
> 
> -- Ben
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Joanna Bryson <jjb at cs.bath.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> I agree that the content of BMI is not really very apporpriate to most of
>> the interests of Connectionists, but I would be concerned if the mailing
>> list organisers didn't explain this to you first rather than just banning
>> you without conversation.  When I have moderated mailing lists, I have
>> normally contacted people who were forwarding marginally inappropriate
>> content to the list, though I do just block those who post completely
>> inappropriate things to the list and don't seem to actually follow, read and
>> know the content of the list.
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>> Joanna
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>> As Juyang Weng wrote (Yesterday at 2:23pm):
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