SUO: Re: SUO Postings

[Jon Awbrey <jawbrey@att.net>]

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Mike,

My repeated request that you not send me
any more off-list messages was also clear.

If you have a specific question about the relevance of a posting to
the SUO Scope and Purpose, then please state it.  This is the basis
of rational discussion.  Otherwise, you are simply trying to claim
some sort of personal veto power for youself, and no rational forum
can be allowed to work that way.

Jon Awbrey

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Mike Pool wrote:
> 
> Jon,
> 
> I think my request was pretty clear as was your pledge to try to keep the
> number of postings down <http://suo.ieee.org/email/msg11208.html> but let
> me reassert in a more direct fashion:  Please stop posting so many messages
> to the SUO list.
> 
> Jim, I  believe, based on a significant amount of evidence, that a decrease
> in the rate of messages posted by Jon Awbrey is crucial to the survival of
> this forum.   Please let me know if my request is unreasonable and/or
> unenforceable.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Mike Pool
> 
> At 10:30 AM 10/16/2003 -0400, Jon Awbrey wrote:
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> >Mike,
> >
> >If you have a specific question about the relevance
> >of one of my postings to the SUO Scope and Purpose,
> >or a request for clarification about any issue
> >that I have written on, please formulate it
> >in a way that I can do something positive
> >about it.
> >
> >Thanks In Prospect,
> >
> >Jon Awbrey
> >
> >P.S.  In my perception, a large part of the recent volume
> >has consisted of John Sowa's cross-postings from the CG List,
> >some of whose pertinence to SUO work seems a bit remote to me,
> >but I never would, and never have so far, tried to second guess
> >another hard-working participant's judgment about such questions
> >without trying to give an explicit, focused, and specific reason.
> >If you have a question that you would be able to rephrase in those
> >terms, please be considerate enough to share it, and I will do my
> >best to address it.  ~~ JA
> >
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> >Mike Pool wrote:
> > >
> > > Jon,
> > >
> > > Didn't you recently promise to try to limit the number of your postings
> > > and to keep them focused?  I won't comment on the latter pledge, but I
> > > count 27 postings from you on the three days Oct. 13-15.  The result is
> > > an overwhelming amount of traffic on the list, and I, for one, would be
> > > most appreciative if you would concatenate a number of your messages
> > > into one or two daily postings.  The end result would likely be that
> > > people would pay more attention to the postings that you do make.
> > >
> > > best regards,
> > >
> > > Mike Pool
> > >
> > > At 08:30 AM 10/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
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> > > >sounds like a good last word on that,
> > > >probably time to look for a more
> > > >productive line of inquiry.
> > > >
> > > >jon
> > > >
> > > >John F. Sowa wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Jon,
> > > > >
> > > > > That is another important distinction:
> > > > >
> > > > >  > I was speaking about the distinction between physics
> > > > >  > and philology, figments that we fit to reality and
> > > > >  > figments that we fit into fits, in the lay sense
> > > > >  > of the term.
> > > > >
> > > > > Physics is the subject that studies and categorizes
> > > > > what exists in the physical world.  It is essential
> > > > > to building up the set of categories that we need
> > > > > to represent the things that exist in the world
> > > > >
> > > > > Philology studies words and how they came to aquire
> > > > > the features and relationships they have.  It is
> > > > > essential to building up the set of categories
> > > > > that we need to represent the way people talk
> > > > > about the world and their ways of viewing it.
> > > > >
> > > > > John
> > > >
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