Can't speak for Anny, Candice, but I'm not suggesting that anyone refrain
from commenting on anything. Including my posts. I was not promulgating a
policy of any kind in my original reply.
jd
On 2/28/07, MC Ward <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Anny,
>
> It's hard to tell sometimes whether you're speaking
> about Chris or Joe--except at the very end of your
> post, when you suggest that the long-held freedom to
> comment on _anyone's_ post should be eliminated. I
> feel shocked by the suggestion and hope it won't be
> put in force.
>
> Candice
>
>
>
> --- Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I am just reading something like 17 messages one
> > after the other on the same
> > but different topics. I am sending this message to
> > support Joseph's
> > position. The initial story Chris sent in had little
> > to do with anything. I
> > have been reading Chris' mails for years by now, and
> > this is the very first
> > time he expressed himself in this way.
> > What I do not like are some subtle/ironical
> > insinuations that followed. I
> > think that once an observation like the one Joseph
> > did is sent, there should
> > be no further comment.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 2/28/07, Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't see any policemen around here.
> > >
> > > jd
> > >
> > > On 2/28/07, Peter Cudmore
> > <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I understood (which is always moot) the Buffalo
> > deal concerned what was
> > > > posted, rather than who posted; people like Alan
> > Sondheim, Harry
> > > whatsit?
> > > > withdrew rather than being banned.
> > > >
> > > > I guess one's attitude to these things depends
> > on whether, on seeing a
> > > > police officer, one thinks: 'how reassuring', or
> > 'omigod, what have I
> > > > done?'
> > > > I tend to the latter, despite being mostly
> > innocent.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > --
> > > Joseph Duemer
> > > Professor of Humanities
> > > Clarkson University
> > > [sharpsand.net]
> > >
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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Joseph Duemer
Professor of Humanities
Clarkson University
[sharpsand.net]
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