Re: Superimposition
reed ( (no email) )
Thu, 23 Jan 1997 09:20:37 +0000
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>His message specifically stated that he hoped he would get the
>help this group usually provides. That is often but not always from
>you; in any case, he did say "the group". Reread his message.
>
>I think the problem is that you view this list as a place for people to ask
>you questions (all of which you've answered already and are somewhere in
>your previous posts or your web page), while some people are used to the
>more usual model of a mailing list where the discussion is open to anybody
>who wants to talk about anything on the topic, for the pleasure and
>edification inherent in doing so. Of course it's your list and you can run
>it however you want, but you might try to be sensitive to the fact that
>some people here might not understand what your vision of the list is.
>Namely, do you want this to be a place where we can feel free to ask any
>on-topic question in hopes that another of us will feel like answering, or
>is it a place where
>all questions must build without repetition on a theme which you are
>developing, and is becoming a book you are writing? In any case, even if
>you want to guide the course of the discussion, the way in which you tell
>people they are off topic is usually incredibly rude and arrogant. I think
>this list is more about your starving ego than jazz, and I've had enough.
>
>I know, I know, you don't need my advice about how to run a mailing list,
>etc. etc. etc. You already know more than everyone else about everything.
>
>
>Jim Kroger
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Jim,
I think in the whole history of the list, I have maybe stopped a
thread 3 times max.
I also have never terminated anyones posting privleges.
I don't tell other people what mail they can and can't answer
and what they can and can't post.
On the other hand I'm entitled to my opinion.
The only real rule I have is that the posts have to do with
the creation of jazz or the education of others to do so.
Something which neither of your last two mails have anything
to do with.
Your ideas of what I'm trying to do with this list, what I
get from it, etc. have absolutely nothing to do with why I run this list.
Try and keep from projecting your own narrow view of life onto
other people and instead post something relevant to music.
If you feel you need to tell me the evil of my ways, do it with
private e-mail so you don't make people all over the world in 25
countries have to waste time reading rubbish like you sent today.
reed
Reed Kotler
reed@justjazz.com
http://www.justjazz.com