Like a good Neighbor

Lee Berman · 24 Nov 2011, 16:22 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:22:34 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
Message-ID: <SNT123-W41CEE42B0530D889C697C4CFCE0 at phx.gbl>

>Antonio Pedro Marques: Some guy said something about you being represented by 

>your ideas. As such, pointing out problems with your ideas is tantamount to 

>delegitimising you as a person.

Nobody said that Antonio. What I said is that ideas represent people in here.

Disagreement is one thing. Derision and ridicule is another. We all know how

to exit an argument and "agree to disagree". If instead, a poster chooses to

resort to insulting the ideas of others, I find that worthy of addressing.

This list is not a literary review journal but I see no reason we can't 

attempt to approach the standards for appropriate, professional, adult conduct

found in the writings for such publications. We all have little eruptions of 

childish emotions in the course of our lives.. But we don't have to express them 

in writing and publish them on the internet every time we feel them. Do we?

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net