And last one for today JC. Did I say a day ? Unsubscribed from LS GG after under 1 hour. Already 20 or 30 (automated) spam mails from Tim Rapsncows - need to recognise spam when you see it. Ian PS - You have my email if you need to communicate.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm, I didn't say "moderated" I really did mean editorial control. > > Comment threads on web content are so last decade .... lots of > discussion why they will never work ....your friend should get > depressed, I'm sure Horse doesn't. > > (Anyway - Tim / Rapsncows was pure - offensive and downright > aggressive - spam when he was on here, and seems he's the same over > there.) > > (Joined your love-fest over there for a day.) > Ian > > > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 8:57 PM, John Carl <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Ian, >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Ian Glendinning >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> John, when you say "LS" you mean the Google Group called Lila Squad or >>> another site (one of many blog & forum attempts with the Lila Squad >>> name) ? >>> >>> >> j: >> >> Yes, I meant the LilaSquad group that Mary initiated. It's a small >> discussion group. >> >> >> >> >>> So far as I can see the LSGG is same old same old - Bo calling >>> everyone SOMists and Platt egging him on with anti-democratic rants ? >>> >> >> >> j: Well Platt posts rarely. Bo is quite prolific on his own without >> need for much egging. But I find >> trying to argue with him has been jolly good exercise. I can't bench press >> 300 pounds either, but trying does build muscle. >> >> >> i: >> >> >>> That plus resurrection of 200 year old philosophic problems long since >>> solved, and a lot of unfiltered spam. >> >> >> j: you must mean tim there. I don't think he believes in speaking plainly >> but it's not really "spam" so much as unfiltered craziness. >> >> >> >>> (Surprisingly I've tried to >>> r-engage Bo a few times in the last couple of years, but all he ever >>> does is hurl ignorant insults.) >>> >>> Anyway, incidentally after posting on only a handful of threads on MD >>> in the last couple of years I too was heard to remark in December on >>> seeing a Marsha conversation with Dan that "it was great to be >>> reminded of why I remained subscribed to MD". >>> >>> Sadly very few people on any related discussion site actually listen >>> to any post 1980's contributions. Each finds a refuge on which to >>> argue their own points on their own terms - as if antagonism was the >>> point of the exercise.Twas ever thus. >>> >>> >> j: well, if so then that itself is an interesting phenom. But there is so >> little conversation to be had about Pirsig and his ideas, >> anywhere in the world, that the fact that a group of people do so is a rare >> and valuable treat and we all ought to be >> grateful rather than antagonistic. >> >> i: >> >> >>> I've concluded editorially managed channels are the only hope for >>> constructive progress, and there are plenty of those around. >>> Ian >>> >>> >> >> An old friend of mine, Steve Marquis (who used to belong to MD) is the >> moderator for a discussion group on stoicism and he says its getting more >> and more discouraging - the kind of reasoning that passes for sound these >> days. Tsk tsk. We are starting to sound like old curmudgeons - kids these >> days don't care about reason, they use logic to justify >> socially-transferred opinions... but as you say, twas ever thus. >> >> John the curmudgeon >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >> http://moq.org/md/archives.html Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
