A word from the moderator

From: estephen@emf.emf.net (E. Stephen Mack)
Date: 7 Jun 1995 06:31:29 GMT
Organization: Winter Weather, Berkeley, CA

Progress
========

alt.usenet.manifestoes has achieved better propagation and now seems to
be carried (somewhat spottily but not too bad) around the world.  Even
AOL now carries this newsgroup.

As moderator, I see my job as to keep this newsgroup going by finding
interesting manifestoes to reprint here.  But it cannot succeed without
more submissions.


A Call for Manifestoes
======================

If you know of an interesting manifesto (for an individual,
organization, government, company, group, etc.), please submit it.

In addition, DISCUSSION IS WELCOME.  If you have some comments on past
or future manifestoes, please feel free to post.


Controversy
===========

I am about to post two manifestoes from the archives at Spies, thanks
to a suggestion from Thomas Dell (dell@goonsquad.spies.com).

(If you have not visited The Internet Wiretap at http://www.spies.com/
I urge you to visit their extensive e-text library and other interesting
reading.)

The two manifestoes forthcoming are:


The Communist Manifesto
-----------------------
It is a relevant, interesting and thought-provoking document.  It is a
little long at 1400 lines.  The middle section of Part II is funny
and eye opening.


The PC Manifesto
----------------
This is a manifesto parody: it satirizes Political Correctness
in the form of that "movement"'s manifesto.

I personally find the article to be racist and unfunny; I debated
against reprinting it here.  Finally, I decided to post it in
hopes of provoking discussion and knowing that some would find it
amusing and that some would find the anti-PC backlash alarming.


Archive
=======

An archive of past articles is available.  This list includes:

   Article 1: Welcome to Alt Usenet Manifestoes (05/16/95)
   Article 2: The Origin Story (05/17/95)
   Article 3: Kibo's HappyNet Manifesto (05/19/95)
   Article 4: The Manifesto of David Guntner (05/31/95)
   Article 5: [Manifesto of Ellis L. Keyes] Life is a Party (05/31/95)
   Article 6: Electronic Rights & Responsibilities V0.13 (05/31/95)
   Article 7: cyberfeminist manifesto (05/31/95)
   Article 8: the PERKYGOTH manifesto (05/31/95)
   Article 9: Manifesto of Negativity (05/31/95)
   Article 10: self-explanatory (rone@netcom.com) (06/02/95)
   Article 11: Manifesto Mini-FAQ (06/02/95)
   
To read the archive, browse this URL:
http://www.emf.net/~estephen/manifesto.html

__________________________________________________________________________
-- Zeigen (E. Stephen Mack)                               estephen@emf.net
        Zeigen's Dilemma Home Page: http://www.emf.net/~estephen/
      There was, however, one stone that was left unturned by accident.