Goodbye from burmanet-l and go forw

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Subject: Re: Goodbye from burmanet-l and go forward

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999 OKKAR66129@xxxxxxx wrote:

> We can discuss on line every day through mailing lists and NGs. Yet you 
> denied discussion. Then do not hope for the dialogue between SPDC and DASSK. 
> They will have the kind of spirit you have.
> 
> ok

Your implied message that free discussion on the internet (which is, and
has been widely available for years) will somehow lead to dialog in
Rangoon is unsupported by facts.  Why should the regulation of Panyoma's
list have anything to do with the climate of discussion inside Burma?  
Isn't it more useful to focus on the actual situation of media in Burma?  
Complete junta control, draconian laws regulating even basic video and
photocopy and fax technology.  Geez, roll up your sleeves and create a
more open atmosphere for all parties inside Burma, will you?  Until then,
your complaints about how some individual runs his or her private list
ring a bit empty, don't they?

BTW, are you a Lt. Col. or Col.? 

> 
> In a message dated 12/30/99 7:17:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
> panyoma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> 
> > Dear Okkar
> >  
> >  Sorry no military dogs are allowed- a waste of a space.
> >  You guys deserved no democracy at all ,and I can live with my decision on 
> > this
> >  particular case.
> >  The history will agree with us.
> >  
> >  Have yourself a deadend year in 2000.
> >  
> >  goodbye!
> >  
> >  panyoma/syd
> 

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