Gary, List, Your recommendations are helpful and sensible. However, when you ask whether a text proposed for discussion has been *“digested”*, I must say that, personally, I wonder whether it has been *read* (because very often the answers to questions or doubts raised are in the text). In this regard, I would like to point out that you can go much further in analyzing what is happening on Peirce-L by consulting this article by the Editor-in-Chief of Transactions (the Charles S. Peirce Society), Cornelis de Waall, (2006), entitled “*The importance of being earnest: A pragmatic approach to bullshitting*,” in Hardcastle Reisch, Bullshit and Philosophy. Open Court. Indeed, with social media, bullshit has become a subject that philosophy has inevitably taken up.De Waall's conclusion, after a very detailed and enriching study in which Peirce's inquiry is extensively discussed, is as follows: *“A better understanding of bullshitting may be a first step, not only towards detecting and identifying bullshit, but also towards countering or preventing it when it is inappropriate.”* I invite everyone to question their own practice of Peirce-L in light of this text. Personally, I comply with this by striving to produce only *well-argued,* carefully documented texts that are indexed with the citations I use to support my arguments. However, it seems to me that the rules you wish to impose as moderator are a little rigid. I take as an example the discussion thread I have just opened. I make it a point to respond as quickly as possible out of respect for those who took the initiative to ask the question. This means I end up writing as many responses as there are questions, which can cause me to exceed my quota by a wide margin, even if I spread my responses over two days. Furthermore, when I am confronted with the technique known as “cuckoo” (someone who uses a discussion thread to introduce their own topic that has little or no relevance to the text in question), what should I do? Refuse to respond even if this seriously discredits other personal writings or even those of Peirce himself? Respond at the risk of playing the cuckoo's game? I think these questions need to be asked...
Sincerely yours, Robert Marty Honorary Professor ; PhD Mathematics ; PhD Philosophy fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Marty *https://martyrobert.academia.edu/ <https://martyrobert.academia.edu/>* Le jeu. 26 juin 2025 à 02:53, Gary Richmond <[email protected]> a écrit : > List, > > Responses to some posts in recent days have come so speedily that one > wonders if the post being responded to could possibly have been fully > 'digested'. Whether or not that is the case for the responder, having > several list members posting several times a day makes it difficult for > those following the argumentations to keep up. For example, I like to look > up at least some of the internal quotations and/or Peirce references in > some posts. > > So as List moderator I am requesting that Peirce-L members post no more > than a single post a day in a given thread, and no more than twice a day if > they are participating in two threads. My hope is that this discipline > might prove beneficial to both posters, responders, and those following a > threaded conversation. > > Gary Richmond (writing as Peirce-L moderator) > _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ > ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY is now at > https://cspeirce.com and, just as well, at > https://www.cspeirce.com . It'll take a while to repair / update all the > links! > ► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] > . > ► To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message NOT to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] > with UNSUBSCRIBE PEIRCE-L in the SUBJECT LINE of the message and nothing in > the body. More at https://list.iu.edu/sympa/help/user-signoff.html . > ► PEIRCE-L is owned by THE PEIRCE GROUP; moderated by Gary Richmond; and > co-managed by him and Ben Udell.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ARISBE: THE PEIRCE GATEWAY is now at https://cspeirce.com and, just as well, at https://www.cspeirce.com . It'll take a while to repair / update all the links! ► PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to [email protected] . ► To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message NOT to PEIRCE-L but to [email protected] with UNSUBSCRIBE PEIRCE-L in the SUBJECT LINE of the message and nothing in the body. More at https://list.iu.edu/sympa/help/user-signoff.html . ► PEIRCE-L is owned by THE PEIRCE GROUP; moderated by Gary Richmond; and co-managed by him and Ben Udell.
