Stephen, John, List, I know the frustration that one can occasionally feel in reading forum messages and segments of thread exchanges which, for example, seem to be rehearsing the same material, covering the same--or similar--territory, especially on a topic in which one has little or no interest.
But I have discovered over the years that what may be of little or no interest to some may be of considerable interest to some others.. For example, in the present thread, the putative distinction between the semeiotic triad seen *as a single triadic entity* *versus* the triad *as expressing three relations* seems to me to one worth entertaining in considering what is really a fundamental aspect of Peircean semeiotics. Of course one can't know in advance if the distinction is valid, what the inquiry might conclude, etc. Be that as it may, while it is at present doubtful whether Jon S. or Edwina will ever satisfactorily resolve this or other such fundamental differences in perspective (who knows? they may even have tired trying), I have personally gained from their attempt to explain their very different positions to each other, including my better understanding of their individual stances. But returning to the question at hand, it seems to me perhaps fruitful to approach it from the standpoint of how often to post to peirce-l (we have in the past taken up such matters as what is appropriate to post to Peirce, how to best deal with what one considers to be abusive in a discussion, etc.) When shortly after Joe Ransdell, the creator of the Peirce e-forum along with the Arisbe 'gateway' site, died at the end of 2010, I was asked by The Pierce Group (led by Nathan Houser) to take on the role of moderator of peirce-l, Ben Udell and I to co-manage the forum and the Arisbe site (most of you know that Ben is also the webmaster of Arisbe). While we were fairly familiar with what Joe had written on the peirce-l page of Arisbe about the character and conduct of the forum, we both plunged into studying it in order to understand it as fully as we could. For example, here Joe comments on the length and number of posts: *No limitation is put upon the length or number of posts.* Many are quite short but some are extensively developed, and the policy is neither to encourage or discourage on the basis of length: either stance seems to the manager to be, in effect, a discouragement of the attempt to do or to further philosophy in this public forum. (TPG, Ben, and I, have from time to time suggested off-list that certain individuals curtail posting an excessive number of messages when this has occurred daily over a long period of time--but this has been *extremely* rare.) I have made it a daily discipline to read all peirce-l posts when I am able to (I ask Ben to watch the list closely when, as recently, I was traveling, and even more recently, when I had surgery). But you, dear list member, are under *no* obligation to do anything of the sort. Remembering that what you do not like, or are not interested in, or that peeves you, may be producing a very different reaction in another forum member, yet feel free to delete whatever you please, a better approach, I think, than to be seen as potentially standing in the way of inquiry. Best, Gary Richmond (writing as list moderator) [image: Gary Richmond] *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690 <(718)%20482-5690>* On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 10:42 PM, John F Sowa <s...@bestweb.net> wrote: > On 1/25/2017 10:28 PM, Stephen C. Rose wrote: > >> Sorry for the rant and if I am alone in my reaction... >> > > You're not along in that reaction. > > John > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > peirce-L@list.iupui.edu . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to l...@list.iupui.edu with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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