On Feb 18, 2008, at 9:45 PM, Michael Perelman wrote:
You may be right.
No, he is not. Michael, with all respect (to you and to LP), this is
all guesswork on what he was interested in or not. And as Gulick's
response demonstrates, there was no attempt to productively engage
him, but quite the opposite -- Doug questioned the guys credibility by
calling Fox News "polemical genius" and other such stuff, for crying
out loud!! And as far as mailing list form goes, I believe what would
have been good list etiquette would be (a) to give a newcomer some
breathing room, (b) follow the recommendation of the moderator/owner
(*).
--ravi
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 08:43:27PM -0500, Louis Proyect wrote:
It is actually not in very good form to subscribe to a mailing list
and begin posting long provocative essays right off the bat. He would
have been better off easing into the discussion. Frankly, I don't
think he was that interested in discussing things.
(*) I am not big on "list owner" dictatorships, actually, but you are
hardly one, and here is what you wrote:
I am very interested in this exchange -- even more so if Marty jumps
in. Please try
to keep the temperature down, but I think that we can benefit from
tapping Eric's
expertise, especially because his views are in the minority here.
