> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Erik Reuter
[snip]
> Bullshit. You organized it, even if you didn't intend to, by choosing a
> list of people, creating a mailing list, not telling them that it was an
> exclusive list, and not asking everyone to keep the discussions on that
> list to only basic test matters (or telling everyone that the test list
> would be digestified and posted to the main list every day). Negligence
> or intent, the result was an organized discussion ("emergent system" :-)
If you're going to complain about self-organizing systems, then complain to
whoever or whatever you believe invented the universe, not me. Or the Santa
Fe Institute, perhaps.
So maybe I should have known that people from Brin-L, engaged in testing a
new home for the list, would talk about what's going on with the list. And
you are chastising me for creating this unintentional conspiracy? That's an
oxymoron... but a somewhat thought-provoking one. Perhaps I'll write
something about self-organizing conspiracies. Isn't that what evolution is?
I think that you consider apologizing for using the word "conspiracy" in the
first place, because it further poisoned the atmosphere around here. And I
DEMAND... er, no, that's not right. Do what you believe is right.
I apologize to anyone who felt like the test list was an exclusive club.
That was most certainly not my intention at any point -- and I appreciate
those who recognized it.
Nick
