Unwritten rules of the list?

[Charles Jannuzi]

My tit for a tat. Following Kelley's rules:

, Charles Jannuzi wrote:
> >Kelly writes in part:
> > >>> because i'm fed up and i'm going to blow a fuse. wait! i AM blowing
a
> >fuse<<
> >
> >Actually, Kelly, I'm bit fed up myself, but save the fuses for real
> >problems.
> >  You see, I'm a bit fed up at people who quote entire posts in order to
> >reply to one part
>
> i covered that: that's what a giant encrusted dingleberry is.

There Kelley, does that refresh your memory enough?
Do you see now why, when I joined this list, I thought at first many of you
had problems with cognition and language processing?

And is this really your idea of intelligent discussion? What would the CIA
or NSA make of it? It wouldn't even have to be encrypted in porno graphics
to make uttlerly no sense whatsoever to anyone who just joined the
discussion.

Doug H is list owner and moderator. I'm not Doug H.

And,  I'm not an audience-friendly discussant because I only write for real
discussants, not list voyeurs.

Also,  I hate e-mails in the quotes and comment format. It's not my personal
style. I'll try to do better if it keeps you on an even keel.

 I'm a synthesist of threads I like. I at least usually get the name of the
thread right. And most of my contributions can be understood from their own
context. That's right: they are coherent. I also invite multiple
interpretations and follow-up ambiguous responses. I mean, sheesh, what
would Kierkegaard have done with this medium?

Also, so far I've made some original contributions that DO NOT come from the
perspective you obviously are used to (and so your emotional ketchup burst
is probably just sublimination of some sort, perhaps we knew each other in
different lives, bad karma, I was cow you were a bug in my grass and I ate
you ).

Still, if only ten people think I'm an asshole I must be doing something
wrong. Of course that might mean that only twenty people or so actually read
anything posted to the list (?).

Finally, if you are so worried about bandwidth for people who pay to dial up
(we pay for local calls here in Japan you know), stop adding those
decontextualized quotes at the end of your posts. In the digest it looks
like Mr. Pivner and William Gaddis share your out-box or something. Or stop
contributing to threads like this and send a polite, private post to the
person off list detailing, with quotes, how your milieu has been violated.

Charles Jannuzi