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Friends, old timers and recent persons, I like Phil Gasper's postings because he finds things that interest me for me! That is what belonging to a List does for me. It is a List of people whom I do trust for their judgment and political attitude and actions. The delete key is easy enough to use if things are not now interesting to me. I like things that are not academic, news from Mexico or Africa.. I cannot say here "from Brazil" because I am the one who sends them... Each of us has a non-small ego and wishes that he/she would get comments and answers to his/her postings. But I for one read many of the postings with great interest but feel no need to "reply". This is not a visibility-giving List. We have less nuts now than in the days of John Landon... Hope he does not respond! Hugs to all, Maurice Maurice Bazin Rua Pau de Canela 1001 Campeche/Florianópolis 88063-505 Brasil Tel: 55 48 237 3140 Fax: 55 48 338 2686 (pode precisar avisar / may need oral warning) On May 10, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Phil Gasper wrote: > As a non-scientist I would not ordinarily (except when I have > questions) > respond to scientific posts, but it is for those posts (when they do > appear) that I subscribe to the list. I don't remember the > feminist-baiting posts (I probably just deleted and forgot them), and I > don't now remember responses to them -- but probably I would simply > have > appreciated such responses rather than adding to the thread. I would > like to check out the archives on this. When did that exchange take > place? The only thing fitting this description that I recall was at the beginning of February, and Claudia Hemphill and I both responded. It's archived here: http://list.uvm.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0402&L=science-for-the-people. > I agree that there are probably too many mere fwds of news articles. I probably send more to this list than anybody else, but this is not a high-volume list--fewer than two messages a day (from everyone) on average. My criterion for posting articles is whether they deal with issues that would have been discussed in the magazine. If they spark a response, which they occasionally do, so much the better. Of course some people may have seen some of the stuff before and others won't be interested--that's what the delete key is for. I find it handy to have everything archived in one place, but if a significant number of people find it irritating and don't want to filter me out, I will be more selective. --PG