Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:56:33 -0700 To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org From: The Independent Eye <eye-AT-independenteye.org> Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Subj: Re: fwd: Ernie's Eyes Dear Howard- To help put your remarks in context, it'd be really helpful if you could direct us to some information about your own work - any website, videos, photos or articles available? I've come to this list only recently and know you only as "Howard." -Conrad Dear Everyone- For chrissake let's not get into the issues of the proper tonality of posts here, or whether Howard's a brilliant truth-teller or an addled rhinoceros, or whether the list is a "safe" place to post. We've all been through that defensive-offensive tango on other lists - and if you haven't, take it from me you don't want to. Ask the list moderator to decide what's out of bounds, and if some people offend you, ignore'em. The death of any listserv starts when it itself becomes the main object of focus, as if we were at a Constitutional Convention to determine the future of the world. To me, there's no genuine purpose to vituperative sarcasm except to show off or to vent, and there's no point in defending against it - once you've been spit on, the best you can do is wipe it off. But then that's the Quaker half of me talking (the other half is something else again). I do think it'd be a worthy function of Puptcrit to be a place to request honest feedback on one's own work or discussion of stuff in the public arena. (And that doesn't have to be at the exclusion of info about papier mache.) But that never ever works in a context of rants and attacks, and for some people that's just the way they relate to the rest of the world - nothing you can say to change it. -Conrad _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org Admin interface: http://lists.puptcrit.org/mailman/listinfo/puptcrit Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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