Hi DMB,

> Ian [had] replied:
> Agreed. Precisely ...

> dmb says:
> Dude, you've announced your agreement with one bland statement and totally 
> ignored the rest. Why ask the question if you're just going to ignore the 
> answer.

Not ignoring, just proceeding carefully, progressively.

You say agreement is "bland".
To me agreement is something positive worth noting, to pin a few
"static latches" into the discourse, otherwise it's all shifting
sands. Also, without any visible agreements, actual positions get
ignored, perceived positions get misquoted (as straw men) and thrown
back as misleading positions in ad-hominem arguments. (Half a dozen
examples in this thread alone.)

Also, far from "verbose drivel" I'm using "economy of expression" (As
in "Agreed. Precisely", as in "Yes, emphatically", etc) to signal
agreed points and not waste mail volume on the "bland" stuff so we can
get to the meat. References to "verbose drivel" are another spurious
straw man, directed at the person.

Anyway, given that we agree, MOQ-ish intellectual discourse is "more
than" GOF-SOMish intellectual discourse, I will return to some of the
suggested answers, Arlo's and yours (and anyone else, before I do ?).
Ian
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