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I respectfully request that Roy document any such 
threats published on the Hayek-L list.  I have complete  
confidence that he cannot do so.  If any Hayek-L 
list members have threatened Roy or anyone else privately, 
I respectfully ask that Roy inform me of the names of 
these individuals, and I can assure you that they will no  
longer be Hayek-L subscribers. 
 
The Hayek-L list has around 500 list members from all over the  
world, and from departments across the academy.  It also has a  
very diverse "stew" of list members in terms of politics & ideas,  
from all over the intellectual map.  Discussions from these 
many & diverse perceptive are published on the list every 
day.  The two things which are not allowed on the list  
are racism and character assassination based on falsehoods 
and misinformation.  I would suggest that Roy is trading  
in the later, and is making use of the HES list for this purpose. 
 
To repeat.  The Hayek-L list is an open forum welcoming 
folks from all over the political landscape -- and always has 
been.  It is a list for academics, focused on academics. 
People from all over the political landscape are welcomed and 
often invited to post book reviews on the Hayek-L list or 
to conduct seminars on the Hayek-L list.  Anyone on the HES who 
has a recent or forthcoming Hayek-related book or article, 
who'd like to do a seminar on the Hayek-L list is invited to 
do so.  I can assure you that guests on Hayek-L are treated with 
the respect and civility -- and I have often been reminded and 
assured of this by those who have participated on the list as 
seminar hosts.  I can assure Roy that he would be just as welcome 
and just as well treated. 
 
And very specifically, racists, haters, bookburners, terrorists and  
the like are not welcome and do not have a forum on Hayek-L.  (I find 
it rather sad and even more that a bit pathetic that this must be  
said, in light of Roy's comments below). 
 
 
Respectfully, 
 
Greg Ransom 
editor, hayek-l 
 
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