----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]