From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clerew.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu May 22 2003 - 05:06:40 CDT
In <p0600130bbaf1503bd996@[10.30.3.213]> Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> writes:
>More importantly (and I would like others to take this into account
>in the future), because Bruce continues to be the only one arguing
>and the number of his messages is so high, I imagine that if there
>are other people interested in supporting him, they are not going to
>because of the barrage. (On this topic alone in the past 5 days,
>Bruce has sent 7 messages , Charles has sent 4, I have sent 4 [though
>two of them were only 1-2 sentence queries], and Russ and Bill have
>sent 1 each.) Having the document editor do the largest share of
>arguing for the other position has the same effect (and the added
>effect that people feel like if the document editor says it, there's
>no use arguing against it).
Well I hope that's not the effect, because the document editor would in
fact welcome other opinions, even if it is only "Me2" or "Me-not-2" as the
case may be.
But I am happy to try and say less if that will help.
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