P-List traffic

Paul Mackin paul.mackin at verizon.net
Fri Nov 3 09:49:17 CST 2006


Golly, Doug, please tell us this is some kind of extended joke you  
are playing on me and mom.

Dad


On Nov 3, 2006, at 10:22 AM, pynchonoid wrote:

> A content analysis would be more trouble to prepare,
> but would be much more revealing about who's making
> what kind of contribution here.
>
> I see a few names, at least one, whose posts consist
> almost entirely of material reposted from previous
> threads with only the addition of a sentence or two at
> most - fewer posts than the top 3, yes, but far far
> less of substance.
>
> Many of the numerous posts from Dave Monroe and Ya Sam
> contain lots of interesting stuff they researched and
> typed in for the rest of us to read. I hope that we
> would want to encourage that sort of thing. I've
> covered, in depth, why I've felt it necessary to write
> some long posts to respond to some extremely unfair
> and false allegations made here about me.  Assuming
> that kind of assault will stop, I'll be able to focus
> more on the discussion and less on using truth to
> counter slander and lies, but I'll speak up to set the
> record straight as necessary and appropriate.
>
> A lot of posts that  at first glance might not seem to
> contain muchdo serve an important function of keeping
> the conversation flowing, thank you's and
> acknowledgements -  the elbow grease and
> accommodations of a civil discussion.
>
> That's the trouble with statistics, they can mislead.
> (I'm not suggesting in any way, shape, or form that
> this is what Toby is doing, not at all, no, just
> making a general statement.)
>
>
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>>> "everything connects"
>
>
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