| Subject: | [socialcredit] Keith's suggestion-- Re: experiment | | Date: | Thursday, July 21, 2005 09:54:12 (-0700) | | From: | William B. Ryan <w_b_ryan @.....com>
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| In reply to: | Message 2233 (written by Keith Wilde) |
Perhaps you will take the lead in such a discussion as
you suggest.
--- Keith Wilde <keithwilde@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> "Referencing would be limited to enclosing
> comments of fellow discussants in quotation
> marks, or/and appending an entire posting
> without specific identification other than
> date. "
>
> Bill, this sounds like a practice you have often
> followed, of inserting a statement from someone's
> posting from God knows where--often a list to which
> I am not subscribed, and then making an extensive
> (or intensive) commentary which I have not been able
> to follow for not having enough context. It became
> so irritating to me that I gave up trying and so
> have ignored a lot of the discussion that I would
> otherwise have wanted to keep up with.
>
> The scattered nature of the discussion has made it
> very difficult to get a structured grasp of
> principles, although the circulation of classic
> texts by Wally and others has helped a lot, as well
> as occasional expositions by Vic. Because of
> progressively limited time and energy, my personal
> preference for going forward from this point would
> be to follow the course of study that Vic has
> already prepared. I would be much more comfortable
> and confident in discussing the practicabilities of
> applying principles with such as John R., Don
> Bethune and Martin Hattersley if this were more like
> a graduate seminar where we could all be confident
> that the others had a common grounding in Econ 101.
> I made a similar suggestion to this several weeks
> ago, and the only seconder was Joe Thomson. As I
> recall, however, he may have sent his endorsement to
> me without posting it to the list.
>
> Keith
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: William B. Ryan
> To: socialcredit@elistas.com
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:40 AM
> Subject: [socialcredit] Re: experiment
>
>
> Just some thoughts on our pending experiment:
>
> I am thinking that we would implement some
> rules of procedure that would be a modified
> parliamentary debate format, for example:
> We should not address or refer to one another
> directly by name, or use personal pronouns in
> reference to fellow list members in our
> discussions. Addressing or referring to
> anyone else in the world that way would be
> okay.
>
> Referencing would be limited to enclosing
> comments of fellow discussants in quotation
> marks, or/and appending an entire posting
> without specific identification other than
> date. Anyone following the discussions would
> know who we are referring to. It's none of
> the business of anyone else.
>
> I will appreciate some commentary in
> feedback.
> ---------------------
>
> My second thought is that we should be
> required to include certain easily remembered
> keywords into the subject heading, such as
> A+B, HISTORY, THEORY, PHILOSOPHY, DOUGLAS,
> etc. Five, six or seven such keywords is
> sufficient, I should think. That would allow
> discussants to skip over postings with a
> keyword in the subject A+B, for example, if
> they think A+B is not a fit subject for
> discussion, and focus in on particular areas
> of their personal interest.
>
> That would allow inquirers who come across our
> archive to do the same.
>
> Again, I will appreciate feedback.
> -
>
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