Re: [Pen-l] Vietnam keen to further join in Afghan reconstruction

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
On Dec 22, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> What is the point of having a mailing list except to discuss/debate  
> ideas? Having a robotic feed of material from the business press  
> defeats the whole purpose of discussion and debate and is tantamount  
> to spamming.

Doyle;
The point of mailing list is not just to discuss ideas.  Or debate.   
The list accumulates information or knowledge over time.  Ulhas is  
like many people on many lists who sees something that he thinks is  
'noteworthy' of attention.  The problem is with 'attention'.  LP  
'filters' people which to me is ok in some sense but hardly an answer  
about debating and discussing.

What do we do with information?  A step forward in my view is  
connecting information better.  Discussing and debating assumes  
something happens to the information that is useful.  Where is the  
unity or resolution of debate?  How does one really stimulate a grand  
flow of discussion?  What are the acceptable parameters of the flow  
and why?

The same topic, the same content from different people ought to merge  
into one single unified work.  Represent the whole community.  The  
babble of different threads, the lack of cohesion, the socially inept  
means of connecting are dreadful features of lists and their failings.
humbug,
Doyle Saylor
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