Brent,
Someone else suggested ignoring that poster as well. The only time I see the postings is when someone on the list responds to them. There is nothing of historical significance in the postings, and the best course of action is to delete and/or ignore. 

Anita 

> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 15:43:12 -0400
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> Subject: Re: Yojsouth
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Yojsouth's message earlier today about Thomas Jefferson and Sally
> Hemings has brought me several private requests and demands that he be
> expelled from the list.
> 
> Va-Hist has always operated with as much anarchy as possible. The
> sponsors at the Library of Virginia have believed that the best remedy
> for improper speech is more speech. We have encouraged a civil dialog,
> that being the best way for intelligent discussion to proceed.
> 
> It is not a violation of any unstated Va-Hist rule that your know what
> you're writing about (John Smith did not marry Pocahontas; Sally Hemings
> could not legally have married anybody).
> 
> Or that you can't believe that "an educated, cultured" white widower
> might have had a sex life.
> 
> Or that you be free of prejudices (Sally Hemings, an enslaved African
> American woman, has not been shown to be "skanky," which the dictionary
> defines as repugnantly filthy or squalid or of low or sleazy character,
> although perhaps yojsouth believes that is the default condition for
> women of one-fourth or more African descent).
> 
> Or even that you not gratuitously publish an assertion as if it were a
> known fact (nobody here as asserted that Sally Heming could not keep
> track of the fathers of her children, although perhaps yojsouth believes
> that is a common condition for women of one-fourth or more African
> descent).
> 
> We cannot require that people hide their defects if they insist on
> parading them.
> 
> Please do not let these comments unnecessarily goad us into equally bad
> or worse behavior.
> 
> I, for one, do not propose to respond to yojsouth (who does regularly
> violate a Va-Hist rule that we used to state from time to time that all
> postings be signed with the author's real name), and I hope that other
> people will not, either.
> 
> You don't have to read him. I, who am the list moderator, do.
> 
> Brent Tarter
> The Library of Virginia
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