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Subject: Re: Citations to Listserv posts/Contraception mandate
My recollection is that years ago we were _not_ supposed to cite the listserv
without permission, and when it was cited without permission on a couple of
occasions there was some criticism
... Let me present another view.
Scholarship is not about vanity; it's about the ideas. Things that are relevant
to an idea can come in many forms -- letters, songs, poems, conversations
between spouses or a public speech. It could come from a diary or a movie. The
trouble comes when we fail
Doug Laycock has just posted this very interesting article to SSRN on
Religious Liberty and the Culture Wars that I recommend (though I would
certainly take issue with parts of it):
http://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2304427
Doug's piece prompted me to wonder about a non-substantive point, however,
I think citing to a listserv discussion without confirming with the author is
bad form unless one is simply crediting an idea that one is using that one
first learned on the listserv. I think using an idea posted as a foil (or
worse) without giving the author the opportunity to clarify and
