Earlier: "... your obsession with our mailing list..."
I'm here for the dialog with anyone who wants to read and possibly respond. I believe the list belongs to all of us, altogether, future readers, too. Once the 2nd person joins, it's a 50/50 proposition. The third person makes it a 33/33/33 proposition, and so on. WE must have thousands now, right?
I think that calling someone else's contributions "obsessive" merely identifies ourselves as intolerant, bored, or recalcitrant. I value every member, especially the provocative posts, the ones that make me think, and make me reconsider my point of view.
On 26/09/2007, Monahon, Peter B. Peter.Monahon@uspto.gov wrote:
Earlier: "... your obsession with our mailing list..."
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I think that calling someone else's contributions "obsessive" merely identifies ourselves as intolerant, bored, or recalcitrant.
I think the case here is "bored".
Monahon, Peter B. wrote:
I'm here for the dialog with anyone who wants to read and possibly respond. I believe the list belongs to all of us, altogether, future readers, too. Once the 2nd person joins, it's a 50/50 proposition. The third person makes it a 33/33/33 proposition, and so on. WE must have thousands now, right?
I think that calling someone else's contributions "obsessive" merely identifies ourselves as intolerant, bored, or recalcitrant. I value every member, especially the provocative posts, the ones that make me think, and make me reconsider my point of view.
This is a noble sentiment, Peter.
I'd encourage you to spend some time on Usenet and let us know how that brave experiment unrestricted dialog among anybody who cares enough to show up is working out these days.
Last I checked, it was a swamp. Of course, I gave up on it years ago, so perhaps it has finally changed into the land of thoughtful dialog that people always dreamed of.
William