Re: Forwarded from Greg Schofield

[Greg Schofield <gschofield@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No I don't blame you or anyone else - it is a perfectly legitimate
criticism and I suffered by misjudging the situation.

Unfortunately I cannot see that there is any avoiding nuts and bolts when
talking on this subject - however there are plenty ways it can be
approached which are not so full on and do explain in clear terms what is
being talked about.

I will take your suggestions to heart and begin working on a thread
submission which tries to overcome some of these problems. However, I would
like to try and re-introduce the topic here again in a very much modified form.

The responses to this in the future will be enough guide and if it is
largely negative I will desist without further argument.

At 01:41  19/04/01 -0400, you wrote:
>I guess I'd be interested in discussions of technology in relation to
>political
>organization, to capitalist production and consumption, and to a
>socialism, but
>less enthusiastic about threads that go off in directions that only a minority
>of subscribers can even remotely comprehend, as with discussions of
>programming
>languages and software development models.  That might be better
>dealt with on another list, if only to save a lot of delete-keystrokes for
>those
>whose eyes glaze over at the mention of OOP and such.
>
>Stuart
>stuartwl@xxxxxxxxxx