On Tue, 1 May 2001, Brad DeLong wrote:
I'm trying to be a little more polite than my interlocutors.
It's a *strategy*: a version of tit-for-tat.
You may think that it is the wrong strategy to follow, but it is not
an obviously stupid strategy. And I, at least, am not smart enough to
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Brad DeLong wrote:
I'm trying to be a little more polite than my interlocutors.
It's a *strategy*: a version of tit-for-tat.
You may think that it is the wrong strategy to follow, but it is not
an obviously stupid strategy. And I, at least, am not smart enough to
This sort of exchange does not belong here.
On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 08:40:39PM -0700, Brad DeLong wrote:
Actually, I want to apologize to pen-l for these two posts. Offline Brad
explained to me his philosophy of being obnoxious to people in email
discussion groups because it is a good
