Lou expressed my thought better than I did. I would only add that in
these debates nobody seems to learn anything from anybody else -- at
least, you can pretty well predict what the few participants in such
debates will write.
On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 10:25:32AM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
In
Michael writes:
I would only add that in
these debates nobody seems to learn anything from anybody else -- at
least, you can pretty well predict what the few participants in such
debates will write.
To be sure, most postings in most PEN-L debates appear as predictable
rehearsals of existing
Title: RE: [PEN-L:28996] Re: Re: Re: Re: : liberalism
Louis writes:
I know this is an onerous burden to place on pen-l'ers, but
you should search for ways to impart some kind of concrete information
whenever you post.
That's good, but I like a weaker standard, since not all
I would disagree. It seems to me that maillists are primarily
conversational, and attempts to make them replace printed journals are
mostly wishful thinking. I my only rarely either read or write posts
much longer than 4 or 5 screens. Moreover, issues that really do depend
on large amounts of
