Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 17:01:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: fido <jfr10-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Daydream


On Mon, 19 Jun 1995, Tom Blancato wrote:

> I'll try to give a longer response later, but your identification of *one* 
> hyphen with "a million" is what I meant by the "hysterical method". Indeed, it 
> happens all the time. FPSP means "I, you" (first person, second person). I 
> say, don't shoot the possibility down. Generally bad business for creative 
> work. You may be right, but the thing to do, it seems to me, is to find out 
> how you, in this particular case, may be wrong.

And what if I said posts that take longer than 3 frames are "hysterical"? ;)

I am not trying to shoot down possibilities. I am telling you, 
[you-on-this-list], what I think. I don't think ONTOHEID or 
Philosophy-Lists-Experiment-L are very good listnames; perhaps here the 
use of hyphens or initials strikes ME as hysterical, eh?

Nor do I think the task is to find out how I (vs. [I]) may be wrong; it is
to find out what other people think, how other people approach lists, read
posts, cathect to a listname, etc.  What are all the lurkers on this list
doing lurking, for example? 

Why is seminar-11 not "available"? What happens when a list is moribund?
How difficult is it to set up a list? What is involved? Why use email 
instead of newsgroups?
Why should spoon expand? What binds spoon? For that matter, what is a 
collective? Who invents etiquette?
etc.

-f

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