Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id OAA00761 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:31:35 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D3101745AAB@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: pub discussions Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:29:20 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
>I often get the impression that this list is a pub discussion with
winning
>and losing "points" the more important aspect.
All too true, yet it's a failing of the medium of e-mail I fear, not of the
discipline. Even with smileys and the like, intended meaning seems
unusually difficult to be certain of in e-mail, and things are often taken
the wrong way (I know I've been as guilty of that as anyone else).
Yet what this list cannot be is a peer-reviewed forum for lengthy exposition
of research and theory. I see it it as akin to a seminar discussion where
people are free to float ideas and speculations in the hope that someone can
address issues with their expertise and perhaps offer a few reading
suggestions to enlighten the masses. As with seminars, if participants
don't like the way a discussion is going, they only to need to say so,
there's no prizes for suffering in silence.
Incidentally, I read and write to the list whilst at work (it's brilliant
displacement activity hence my capacity to blather on for ages about nothing
in particular), so I like Wade am stone-cold sober when participating on the
list.
Perhaps list members should hold a convention one day... in a pub? :-)
Vincent
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