[PEN-L:32948] decorum

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: decorum

was: RE: [PEN-L:32935] Re: Re: Re: about some quotes from CAPITAL

> >let's play nice.
> >--
> >Michael Perelman

> Louis Proyect writes:
> I've got an alternative suggestion. Tell Devine not to
> respond to anything I write. I never respond to him. I already promised you that
> I would lay off Negri, Marc Cooper and Zizek just to keep Henwood happy.
> Why can't you tell Devine (and Cox while you are at it) just to ignore me.
> I've been on email lists with these characters for the better part of a
> decade and it is pretty obvious that we have nothing productive to say to each other.

this is a bunch of Balance Sheet! I responded not to Proyect, but to _Perelman_. It was _Proyect_ who responded to _my_ comment on Perelman. I did respond to to Proyect, but it is clear (in retrospect) that this was a mistake, since I have better things to do (such as cutting out anti-war cartoons and posting them on random bulletin boards). So I have erased all of the responses by Proyect in the thread "about some quotes from CAPITAL" from my in-box. This, it seems, it what he wants: he gets to put in the last word, with no disagreement from anyone. That goes against the purposes of pen-l, but what the hell.

(BTW, if there is a bizarre delay in this message, our server's not working well. It didn't work yesterday.)
JD