> At 07:50 PM 12/16/02 -0800, you wrote: > >I'm sorry to see the Orion discussion list go, and would like to express > >my thanks to all who began and have maintained it over the years. Its > >departure will leave a void. While it may not have been very active > > I would also like to add my agreement here. I am sorry for this. While I am > not a 'scholar', but a layman who has studied the scrolls in the original > as part of an interest in Judaism of the late second temple period, I will > miss much of the information that I have found here. We all come from > different backgrounds, and that makes us approach what we read in different > manners. This is very good, in that it helps to get a fuller picture of > the issues. However, I have seen, unfortunately, that some people come to > scholarly lists with an agenda, and try to claim it is just a difference in > perspective. This has caused many of the scholarly lists on the Internet to > lose any value, to either the scholars who had been involved or those who > wish to interact with scholars for serious reasons. The choice then is to > either close the list, or place it under heavy moderation.
Add me to the list of those who would like to see this decision reversed. If heavy moderation is necessary, I have no problem with that (and I've been placed on moderated posting before!). Dave Washburn http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur "Blessed are the flexible, for they will not be bent out of shape." For private reply, e-mail to "Dave Washburn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from Orion, e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: "unsubscribe Orion." Archives are on the Orion Web site, http://orion.mscc.huji.ac.il. (PLEASE REMOVE THIS TRAILOR BEFORE REPLYING TO THE MESSAGE)
