Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?

Jason H · 24 May 2011, 22:20 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: beet31425 at gmail.com (Jason H)
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 15:20:11 -0700
Subject: (urth) Wolfe's brilliance or my denseness?
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As an Urth List newbie, I sure find forum-through-email confusing. I much
prefer the modern forum software I've seen and used elsewhere. But, of
course, it would cost time and money to transfer over and maintain, and
there is pride in the fact that this forum dates back to the 90's.

It's almost as if we're using some ancient technology, maybe from a dozen
ages ago, that we cling to reverentially by the light of our dying sun....
:)


-Jason

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:54 PM, James Wynn <crushtv at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>  (...) a "bible thumper", as Antonio calls people who  are familiar
>>>>> with the Bible (...)
>>>>>
>>>> Ant?nio Pedro Marques:
>>>>
>>>> Whooooa. I didn't use any such  expression. I demand a  clarification.
>>>>
>>> Somebody else used it.  Likewise Lee Berman wrote "Jerry's problem with
>>> random
>>> excerpting" when he meant "Jeff's"--though of course I have that problem
>>> with GB
>>> and Amazon too.  And Nathan wrote "A question arising from Jerry's post"
>>> when he
>>> probably meant Jason H's post.  I suppose I don't notice unless I'm the
>>> person
>>> named.
>>>
>> I don't mind misattributions in general, but I do mind this one.
>>
>>
> A review by our editing department has determined it was Marc Aramini. I
> apologize.
>
> J.
>
>
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