----- Original Message ----- From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2002 9:33 AM Subject: Re: Ignoring Source Materials (Was: re: CNN Breaking News)
> > From: Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > But then again, i would really much rather be discussing science > fiction > > > or something else directly Brin-related, and not middle-eastern > politics. > > > > Well, there was a thread going on a related topic, you could contribute > to > > that or start a new one. I think part of the problem is that there are > only > > so many reasonable posts that can be written on science fiction works. > I > > don't think we want to be as anal retentive as the Jordan lists are, > getting > > into flame wars over every single plot element. > > There's only one Jordan list that matters, rasfwr-j, which maintains a > much stricter standard of posting and etiquette than Brin-L: > Well, I was there for a while, and left becasue the senior people, like Novak, regularly flamed newbies. Dan M.
