On Thu, 15 May 1997, Michael Perelman wrote: <snip> > I often hear people express disappointment that their postings seem to > fall flat. Nobody responds. The reason is not necessarily > disinterest. It can also be that the post makes a point so well that > nothing more need be said. This is often the case for me. Or sometimes people will have already made the point that I was planning to make. I feel that PEN-L has been enjoying a revival of sorts. There have been a variety of interesting threads of conversation, and there have been a number of excellent recent contributions from persons with "shop-floor" rather than academic points of view (Laurie Dougherty's messages come to mind). This latest round of criticism and response has also been valuable to me, although perhaps some of the participants do not view it as such. I say "let's keep at it." Steven Zahniser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
