From: AHAGGERT-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:20:44 EST
Subject: Re: Theatre


In a message dated 11/10/99 1:24:58 AM EST, nellhaus-AT-gis.net writes:

<< This segues again to the strange barrage of animosity toward the original
 question.  I really don't understand why people are so alarmed and so intent
 on policing borders on this list (to give the flip side of Jon's suggestion,
 this is also worth sociologizing). >>

This same debate has appeared on every academic email list I've been on, at 
some time or another. The rhetoric of the various positions (from the 
questions of newcomers to the annoyance of the old hands) is remarkably 
similar from list to list, I suppose because academic lists attracts agents 
in the academic field (students to professors to interested amateurs), and 
the structure of the academic field is relatively stable across national 
borders & is also quite hierarchical. B did The Rules of Art; someone should 
do The Rules of Email.

Andrew Haggerty 
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