Replying to something almost two weeks old, apologies:
On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 7:10 PM Douglas Foster <
dougfoster.emailstanda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When John says that list members plead their case, but their pleas are
> dismissed unsympathetically, it is evidence that mailing lists have a
> le
We tend to talk about legitimacy in contrast to malice or criminality, but
in my economics classes, legitimacy was less pejorative. Gaining
legitimacy meant gaining the social acceptance to continue operating.
When a business gains enough customers to turn a profit, it has
legitimacy. If it go
