(urth) Prior Race On Blue And Green
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
thalassocrat at nym.hush.com
Mon Dec 17 14:00:43 PST 2007
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:48:47 +1100 Recursive Loop
<recursive_loop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>"Where I disagree with you is that I do think these discussions
>are interesting and are obviously
>one of the major reasons why people end up on this list."
>
>I noticed a couple of remarks of late in the order of "well, if
>you only checked the archives,
>you'd see we hashed it over in 19XX."
>
>I agree with the above commentator: discussions are interesting.
>I've been on a Patrick O'Brian
>list for a while, and the old discussions (The Dreaded Casting
>Thread, forsooth) come around every
>now and again.
>
>Sure, we could say--check the archives! But...you know...the folks
>who are new to the list and who
>have not yet added the word "Dreaded" to "Casting Thread" do
>managed to contribute the occasional
>new insight.
>
>I know that there is a natural history to lists, and maybe the
>"old timers" think we "newbys" are
>just re-hashing old history. We can just delve into the archives.
>But maybe we'll learn by
>discussion (that whole "social web" thing) and maybe others will
>learn from us as well.
I think people should feel free to discuss whatever they find
interesting so long as it's vaguely on topic. For me
Urth=Blue=zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, but it's easy enough to ignore and
others no doubt think the same way about things I get into.
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