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I have more information. Some is interesting and some isn't.

The boycott (which I understand to have been one letter with a couple of
"yeah, me too"s just to the list) is being discussed on a list with 40 people
or so. That list broke off of a list that used to have 650 people at the
time, I think, but now has over 847.

So the big list got healthier and more peaceful when some left. But some
people are on both. And although the little list seems to think it has "a
troll," it appears they have maybe ten or more. Or perhaps more and more
people are offended by their tone and are passing information out in
increasing numbers. I don't know.

But the boycott seems to be intended to hurt me financially. And the
suggestion is made there that working "the conference circuit" (there isn't
one, in the rodeo-circuit,
Renn-fai

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On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 00:47:42 EDT SandraDodd@... writes:
> The boycott (which I understand to have been one letter with a couple
of
> "yeah, me too"s just to the list) is being discussed on a list with 40
people
> or so. That list broke off of a list that used to have 650 people at
the
> time, I think, but now has over 847.
>

I'm sure it's entirely coincidental that this very list now has *exactly*
847 members. And it has certainly been more peaceful lately...

Sheesh.

Dar

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In a message dated 7/22/02 11:17:53 PM, freeform@... writes:

<< I'm sure it's entirely coincidental that this very list now has *exactly*
847 members. >>

I meant to say had, not over. Sorry. I first guessed and then decided to
just check.

A friend of mine in Houston found out about the boycott and was really
surprised. She's known me since our little kids were REALLY little. Her mom
lives in Los Lunas, south of Albuquerque, and we've visited in person over
the years.

I haven't yet told Ramona King. She lives here now, but used to live in
Houston. When I told the organizer of the Houston conference that I know
someone who used to be in her group, she said Ramona was the one who
recommended they invite me, before she moved away. Ramona had heard me in
Fort Worth years ago. Ramona is going to be surprised to hear I'm racist.
She might not want to leave her kids with me anymore, or have Holly go with
them to the playgroup days.

(That was sarcasm of a tongue-in-cheek sort. Ramona's African American, and
it was her idea for me to speak there. My detractor claimed I was racist for
saying Arabs are Caucasian.)

Sandra

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-=-But the boycott seems to be intended to hurt me financially. And the
suggestion is made there that working "the conference circuit" (there isn't
one, in the rodeo-circuit,
Renn-fai-=-


oooooops. Most of a long message was lost somehow. I rarely lose a post.
Darn it.

I had detailed how much money I don't make on Thinking Sticks, how I'm paying
$9 a month for advertisement-free webspace because lots of people read the
articles I've posted and linked to, but I didn't want them having to see
tacky advertisements.

I had quoted from HEM's website about the circulation numbers and figured my
cut of people's hard earned money was about a fifth of a penny per reader.

I had told how of the four conferences I've yet to attend this year, one is
local and free (they're not even buying my lunch) and the organizer, whose
last name is Miura and whose kids are part Japanese assured me if boycott
word reached her she would just laugh because she's known me so long and
knows I'm not racist.

Of those other three, some are various combinations airfare and room only, or
fee going to pay for the airfare of a kid who's going with me (Marty's going
to one and Holly's going to another.) And irony of ironies, one has a fee
based on attendance, and talk of a boycott could EASILY pique the interest of
enough people to cause my fee to be higher.

I'm sorry the post was cut short. This one's shorter, though, and so less
reading.

Sandra