Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 18:26:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: FREYTAG-AT-alison.sbc.edu
Subject: RE: Too much talk


I am more likely to unssubscribe from a very busy list when the posts are
interesting, and address points I want to discuss.
I am so awfully busy. I try, in those minutes I can get for online
communication, to let myself enjoy unread message after unread message; 
I try to catch up and get to the moment of conversation, past passive
information-reception. I virtually never do, at least not with enough time 
left over to compose my thoughts and a contribution to an *interesting*
discussion. So I feel a frantic desire to bail out -- there are *already*
too too many novels online that I'm not reading.

(What precedes is not a plea for brevity. But it is a plea for economy
of expression and for a kind of consideration. The best of the contributors
to this list should not have been engaged in hyphen-counting disputes.
Time they spend that way is time others spend passive, time that, given
the requirements of some lives, may not get followed by relevant activity.)

Since I have caught up today, and since I'm delurking, I'll register my
interest in a complexity list, close enough to my work that time with it 
would not be stolen.(I've been reading and writing about Dewey, cognitive
science, construction of the self; it would be great to be in touch with 
others who are interested in/wary of applying the notion of self-organizing
systems in such arenas.)

Matthew

     ------------------