Re: One sentence posts to PEN-L

[joanna bujes]

...and I have to admit, I'm irritated by this desire to control
discourse before you hear what someone has to say. There's something
light-hearted about brief interchanges -- I don't mind them.
Joanna

Devine, James wrote:

it's the quality of sentences that counts, not the quantity.

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      From: Louis Proyect [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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      Subject: [PEN-L] One sentence posts to PEN-L


      I don't want to single anybody out, but there have been a whole slew of
      one sentence posts to PEN-L for what seems like weeks now. I understand
      that most fulltime professors look at listservs as a break from more
      serious work like writing articles that they can read to each other at
      annual conferences, but for the rest of us there is little to be learned
      from a single sentence. On some listservs with scholarly pretensions,
      like those at H-Humanities, moderators won't even allow such posts to
      reach the list.