"Philip Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On goanet we sure do seem to be fighting over SOMETHING! What it is I dont know yet.
Let me suggest an answer (a thousand answers?), though I could be wrong:
o Over your vision versus mine about Goa's history, geography (aqui e Portugal, Goa Indica, an independent country?), culture, language, definition of what it means to be a Goan... and the like o For attention, notice, our place in the sun, the craving for recognition. o Over the right way to run a mailing list. Your definition doesn't tally with mine.... o Over the last word.... o Over eyeballs, built up over 10 years, and now could be misused as a sitting duck for anyone wanting to package a party, product or whatever.
I am also not sure what social capital is being built. But, hey, good luck with the efforts!
Frankly, neither am I very sure, Prof Thomas. But then, building social capital isn't a very easy job. From my understanding, there is no fool-proof way of doing it. One never knows when one is getting there... or whether the 'social capital' being built is of a negative kind!
Anyway, we value readers like you who have consistently given us interesting inputs, never grumbled (about what *others* are doing) and have consistently added value to Goanet.
While on this issue, Prof. I would be personally grateful if you could kindly lead a discussion on the issue of social capital, what goes into building it, and whether at all we could hope to achieve something via a Net-based mailing list such as this (or whether ours is only a pipe dream!) FN
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