Mike replied to Bill:
>no, it's not an academic protocol . . . i take it that these messages are
>addressed to the entire readership of film-philosophy, that all the other
>people reading this are not to be understood as eavesdropping on a
>conversation between bill and mike but are the addressees of an exchange
>between bill and mike on matters of [one hopes] general interest . . . is
>this not the way others imagine our ongoing conversation??
>
>m
>
This is the nature of the listserv-community, we are gathered together
conversing and it makes perfect sense to refer to other members and prior
conversations.
Michael Benton
The Aesthetics and Politics of Film
http://eng281.blogspot.com
Enter Dialogic:
http://dialogic.blogspot.com
Reconstruction
http://www.reconstruction.ws
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