--- Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carrol Cox: > >Sabri, you simply have to acknowledge that a > maillist post, usually a > >fairly hastily written first draft, and almost > always rather short for > >the topics being covered, is not an article in > a scholarly journal. > > It is exactly this notion that makes email > lists, especially and ironically > those that are geared to academia, pretty > worthless in my opinion.
Perhaps that's because academia is largely sterile. Think of spontaneous, unedited e-mail lists as places to have intellectual conversations using written language. They are not necessarily good places to show academic chops (nothing makes we want to puke more than seeing someone aggrandize themselves with details of their latest accomplishment) nor great venues for scholarly exchange of the sort paraded out in academic journals. Sure, a lot of ideas get stolen on lists like this, no citation or credit given. That is why some people spectate here. But that is the nature of the internet. Because you give ideas away, explicitly people will say much of the discussion is worthless even as they plunder away. CJ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com
