Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 20:11:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Rooney <rooney-AT-tiger.cc.oxy.edu>
Subject: Re: What is this shit




On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Paul Bains wrote:

> Greg Seigwort wrote a post recently that was described by Michel as a
> 'lengthy ramble'. This is not conducive to people sharing their thoughts in
> an ecology of ideas (pace Guattari, Bateson). Why bother with such comments
> which are essentially disparaging. 
> Here i imagine retorts claiming that 'lengthy ramble' is descriptive, not
> critical....blah blah. Or if that's what one thinks one should write it..etc.

Quite honestly, I was describing, not disparaging.
If I recall correctly, Greg self-deprecatingly said
as much in the post itself, and my comment was
meant in the same vein.  (After all, "ramble" is
not an essentially negative word.)

Besides, if I'd meant to disparage Greg I would've
called the post a "sprawling morass" or "logorhettic
spew". [insert emoticon here]


Cordially,

M.