[Air-l] what's appropriate
Barry Wellman
wellman at chass.utoronto.ca
Fri Feb 21 09:09:51 PST 2003
Folks,
I've seen too many lists torn apart by digressing from their purpose -- in
this case, discussing internet research -- to other matters. Sure,
everything is germane (I once unsuccessfully tried to get the BMW list to
discuss the class struggle as a cause of car jackings), but some are more
germane than others.
Second, I've seen too many instances where posters to lists assume that
everyone shares their opinions. It's part of the partial communities that
we belong to. There is a rough community of interest around internet
research here, but that doesn't generalize to politics, etc. In short,
political discussions belong on political lists, not here.
That's my .02. YMMV (curious if anyone remembers where the latter comes
from).
Barry
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(1) _The Internet in Everyday Life_
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(2) _Social Strucutres: A Network Approach_
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