Subject: Re: Just an item of interest
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Wed Jun 26 2002 - 16:00:28 EDT
Right, Chris, it's just your subjective opinion...and you're trying to
enforce it on the list. The political discussions haven't been going on
for even one day and you're trying to shut them down?
Or even acting like you have the right?
Jim
Chris Kubica wrote:
> Jim,
>
> I know this is my subjective opinion, but I'm OK with
> discussions of literature-related stuff on here
> (Beats, Joyce, etc.). But pure political discussions
> about Bush or the FBI or Ashcroft or whatever are just
> annoying. If your inbox starting filling with
> discussions of Indonesian parliamentary elections,
> you'd get pretty annoyed eventually, prolly. I do note
> that we're not at the "filled up inbox" stage yet, but
> we still should be careful. I don't see how saying
> "let's be careful" is less appropriate than your more
> "anything goes" or "if you can't take the heat" idea.
>
> Anyway, if you want to be able to chat about
> "whatever" with list members, why not set up a chat
> room, invite bananafishers, and meet there once a
> week/month?
>
> Also, I don't buy the "just delete it" defense. What
> if the e-mail header is already offensive to someone
> (not that any of the recent ones have been), for
> example?
>
> Also note that I'm not at all angry or snippy-feeling.
> Just curious about the above issues. ;)
>
> In my defense, note that in almost every one of my
> messages lately, even about E.H., I try to tie it into
> JDS somehow...
>
> Chris K
>
> --- Jim Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu> wrote:
> > Chris, I'm sorry, but Hemingway is off topic, Joyce
> > is off topic, the Beat
> > Poets are off topic, and this thread is clearly
> > identified. If you don't
> > want to read these messages, delete the messages
> > unread.
> >
> > Seems like we've been through this before :).
> > Salinger is usually NOT the
> > topic of discussion here, and the Salinger/Hemingway
> > discussion we once had
> > quickly turned into a Hemingway discussion...
> >
> > Jim
> >
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