on the other hand, why i enjoy silk is precisely because one can find a post here on flight ticket details as well as a sustained discussion on open source and primary school teaching or neil gamin for that matter. just my 2 paisa
abhishek On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 8:30 PM, ss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personal observations here. I do not intend to hurt anybody's feelings. > > Silk is, after all, primarily a circle of FoU. U always said he was a > collector of interesting people and what I have seen and read on Silk > certainly proves that. > > But it seems to me that a circle of friends always has the effect of > increasing the "comfort zone" over time, after which guards drop and we > start > getting more "personal". > > I refer in passing to the index page of Silk that supposedly advertises the > list: > > silklist -- Intelligent Conversation > > About silklist : > silk-list is a place to have knowledgable, civil and most of all, _fun_ > conversations about technology, philosophy, culture and whatever else we > want > to talk about. We have only two rules: no ad hominem, and no spam. > > Time was when conversations tended to be relatively highbrow and intense. > But don't; people think that we have now broken a particular barrier in > being "comfortable as home" on silk - and that is reflected in the topics > that have started appearing on Silk? For example: > > * Sponsor request for club membership > * Laptop repair info requested > * Phone repair information requested > * Old coin sales info requested > * Personal services info requested > > Nothing wrong in these things, but I think that this is not in keeping with > the Silk list that used to be. > > I re-iterate my disclaimer. No insult or hurt intended to anyone. > > shiv > > > > > > > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - does the frog know it has a latin name? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
