Re: a public plea to pen-l list members

2004-03-01 Thread Michael Perelman
I want to thank James and Ravi. I used to try to enforce Jim's idea, but I have been lax, letting myself become overwhelmed with other stuff. My apologies. On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 08:14:22AM -0800, Devine, James wrote: > In addition, pen-lers should make a major change to the _content_ of their

Re: a public plea to pen-l list members

2004-03-01 Thread Devine, James
In addition, pen-lers should make a major change to the _content_ of their missives when replying to others. Instead of simply replying to Renegade X or Apostate Y in kind, we should write with the _list as a whole_ as our audience, trying to convince the group of the validity of our viewpoints.

a public plea to pen-l list members

2004-03-01 Thread ravi
i delete a large volume of pen-l email, which i would like to read since i respect the opinions of the authors, simply because of the impossible formatting of the text (yes, i do realize i write entirely in lowercase, and if required i will present my case against 'gratuitous capitalization'). som