[327] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Aimee and Sourav, please do not be petty
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josiah D. Seale)
Mon Apr 30 00:36:41 2001
From: "Josiah D. Seale" <jdseale@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aimee L Smith" <alsmith@mit.edu>,
"Sourav K. Mandal" <Sourav.Mandal@ikaran.com>
Cc: <mit-talk@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 00:42:50 -0400
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This list is not to air personal grudges, backhand compliments, or slurs on
character. I have seen all of these in the past couple of days. (note, this
has not been limited to either of you, but you have seemed to be in the
thick of it. This request goes to any applicable party.)
I would, as a member of the MIT community, ask that you please refrain from
filling inboxes across campus with things that are not necessarily pertinent
to the discussion of whatever topic might be at hand.
Rather, I would appreciate it if we could limit messages to a rational
discourse, and let the laws of logic speak for themselves. I am assuming
that you are both rational, intelligent adults.
All I ask is that you let this be the sole defense of character reflected
this in your communiques, as opposed to the witty repartees which seem to be
in vogue at the moment. They are nice, but off topic and distracting. All
that they do is hurt your arguments by discouraging interested parties from
following up.
Thank you very much,
+>Josiah S.
-----Original Message-----
>> Thanks! But, forgive me if I read them with the gain on my BS filter
>> jacked up ...
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>Glad to hear you are going into it with an open "objective"
>mind! Oh, but you are an "objectivist", so we could already
>have assumed you would...
