Friends: I'm somewhat at a loss to understand the flurry of "resignations" from the Science for the People discussion list triggered by what seems to me Sam Anderson's innocuous posting last Sunday, Oct 29 of the New York Times obituary for Dirk Struik. One of the contributing factors might be that the way the list is set up, if there's a disagreement between two of us, it is often aired publicly, probably because only Steve Cavrak and I have ready access to the entire mailing address list. By rights, each of us ought to be able to communicate privately with another member of the list. I know my own reaction to being publicly chided as irresponsible by a posting calling me to task because I did not "respect" Prof. Sponsel's desire to keep confidential a letter on anthropological research on the Yanomami of Peru. I felt defensive, and intended to respond, although I have not yet done so. And now my critic signed off the list in what appears to have been a mood of pique over the Struik exchange. At any rate, I was curious to see whether the Science for the People discussion list was indeed "imploding" and checked it yesterday evening. I was glad to see that we're still mostly together, with over one hundred members, though of course I regret losing those who signed off. I don't think we've ever been at much over 110. Here's the report. Probably Steve or I ought to post updates periodically to make one-on-one communication easier. Subject: File: "SCIENCE-FOR-THE-PEOPLE LIST" Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 21:58:22 -0500 From: "L-Soft list server at UVM (1.8d)" <[log in to unmask]> To: George Salzman <[log in to unmask]> * * Science for the People Discussion List * * Subscription= Open,Confirm * Send= Private * Review= Private * Notebook= Yes,/home/listserv/htdocs/archives/science-for-the-people,Monthly,Public * Confidential= No * Owner= [log in to unmask] (Steve Cavrak) * Owner= [log in to unmask] (George Salzman) * Errors-To= [log in to unmask] * Reply-To= List,Ignore * Default-Options= Repro * Validate= Yes * Auto-delete= Yes,Semi-auto * [log in to unmask] Rob Ogden [log in to unmask] Arlene Ash [log in to unmask] Jim Flowers [log in to unmask] David Culver [log in to unmask] Mary W. Gray [log in to unmask] Arthur B. Powell [log in to unmask] C Hammer [log in to unmask] Doug Brugge [log in to unmask] Joe Schwartz [log in to unmask] Mira M. Brown [log in to unmask] Robert V. Lange [log in to unmask] Roy and Marie Kaye [log in to unmask] Seth Shulman [log in to unmask] Val Dusek [log in to unmask] Gar Allen [log in to unmask] Mike Casper [log in to unmask] Sy Schuster [log in to unmask] Marian Lowe [log in to unmask] Kevin Cadogan [log in to unmask] Ben Chitty [log in to unmask] Ansar Fayazuddin [log in to unmask] John Lamperti [log in to unmask] John W. Lamperti [log in to unmask] Martin Brown [log in to unmask] Lincoln Wolfenstein [log in to unmask] Sam Anderson [log in to unmask] Richard W. Leigh [log in to unmask] Karl Ramirez (Agham-Youth Philippines) [log in to unmask] Daniel Adkins [log in to unmask] Herb Fox [log in to unmask] Diane Laison [log in to unmask] Bob March [log in to unmask] Everett Mendelsohn [log in to unmask] Maurice Bazin [log in to unmask] Vincent Annese [log in to unmask] Jonathan Chondo [log in to unmask] Catherine Enyeart [log in to unmask] Paul Robertson [log in to unmask] Peter van Heusden [log in to unmask] Sang-Hyun Kim [log in to unmask] Ian Pitchford [log in to unmask] Joe Shapiro [log in to unmask] Richard Levins and Charlie Puccia et al [log in to unmask] Bob Broedel [log in to unmask] David Kotelchuck [log in to unmask] Charlie Welch [log in to unmask] Ivan Handler [log in to unmask] Dan I Bolef [log in to unmask] Aram Falsafi [log in to unmask] Marvin Resnikoff [log in to unmask] Patrick Allen Catt [log in to unmask] Eric Entemann [log in to unmask] Jeff Schmidt [log in to unmask] Abraham Castaneda [log in to unmask] Geeta Bharathan [log in to unmask] Victor Wallis [log in to unmask] Neil Jumonville [log in to unmask] Val Woodward [log in to unmask] Steve Smale [log in to unmask] Chandler Davis [log in to unmask] Mel Rothenberg [log in to unmask] Joseph Auslander [log in to unmask] Richard Lewontin [log in to unmask] Kai Wu [log in to unmask] Gary and Danielle Zabel [log in to unmask] Patrick Catt [log in to unmask] Mykol Larvie [log in to unmask] Ted Goldfarb [log in to unmask] Stuart Newman [log in to unmask] Rich Cowan [log in to unmask] Giovanni Tapahg [log in to unmask] Louis Proyect [log in to unmask] Lee Lorch [log in to unmask] Ansar Fayyazuddin [log in to unmask] Won-joon Son [log in to unmask] Frank Rosenthal [log in to unmask] Bob Broedel [log in to unmask] RIME Science [log in to unmask] Vinton Thompson [log in to unmask] Meera Nanda [log in to unmask] Gary Laison [log in to unmask] Corey Hardin [log in to unmask] Iain Boal [log in to unmask] Leon Wofsy [log in to unmask] Charles Schwartz [log in to unmask] Pat Brennan [log in to unmask] Richard Rosen [log in to unmask] Jeanne Gallo [log in to unmask] John Neilands [log in to unmask] Michael Weissman [log in to unmask] George Salzman [log in to unmask] Joseph Alper [log in to unmask] Marilyn Frankenstein [log in to unmask] Larry Kaye [log in to unmask] Nareschandra Shah [log in to unmask] Aaron S. Hawley [log in to unmask] Steve Cavrak [log in to unmask] Art McGee [log in to unmask] Michael Goldhaber [log in to unmask] Corey Dolgon [log in to unmask] Lisa J Greber [log in to unmask] Ed Dubinsky [log in to unmask] Andre Shoumatoff * * Total number of "concealed" subscribers: 1 * Total number of users subscribed to the list: 103 (non-"concealed" only) * Total number of local host users on the list: 0 (non-"concealed" only) * P.S. I believe the "concealed" subscriber is the person who deals with our site at the Univ of Vermont computer center. George
