Dear Marcin and colleagues,
Many thanks for the sympathy and for the suggestion. I think your
proposal is quite in the spirit of the fis initiative. Maintaining the
academic code of conduct should be the First Rule of the list. The
Second Rule, as is well known, says that only two messages per week are
allowed. And the Third Rule, should be about clean posting. I mean, in
order to placate the susceptibility of the server filters the messages
should be addressed only to fis, exclusively, (a few other addresses
might appear in the "cc", but the lesser the better), and not dragging
old messages at the bottom is strongly recommended... Additionally, we
have a fis steering committee (integrated by Yixin, Krassimir, Shu-Kun,
and myself) that can arbitrate in contentious cases where the First Rule
should apply.
Let us forget the present incident; always clarifying that FIS list is
completely open to criticisms, first on fis itself, and also addressed
to any other school or doctrine, either contemporary or from the past...
knowing the opinion of "contrarians" is as much important as knowing the
opinions of the followers. INFORMATION HAS ENORMOUSLY CHANGED OUR
SCIENTIFIC-ECONOMIC-CULTURAL-SOCIAL WORLD AND WE NEED RADICALLY
DIFFERENT IDEAS. By the way, there is an important work on "social
physics" (but arguing from the information flow point of view) by Alex
Pentland that in my opinion establishes the very foundations of "SOCIAL
INFORMATION SCIENCE"--it is a pity, and possibly an error (?), that
this author has placed his exciting research under the banner of physics.
best wishes ---Pedro
MARCIN Schroeder wrote:
Dear Pedro and FIS Colleagues,
I do not contribute much to FIS discussions, but always read them with
interest. I found recent contributions from Soeren very disturbing.
Actually, I feel insulted by them. I understand that the rules adopted
by FIS require academic code of conduct. Personal atacks, or even
argumenta ad personam directed at any member of the list are degrading
discussion to the level beneath dignity of the academic discourse.
I would like to propose that we stick to the old academic rule to
ignore all contributions which are directed not against some views,
opinions, statements or works, but against the person associated
with them.
Regards,
Marcin
Marcin J. Schroeder, Ph.D.
Professor
Akita International University
Akita, Japan
m...@aiu.ac.jp
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Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
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50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
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