[Air-l] AoIR list and professional courtesy

[Randolph Kluver (Assoc Prof)]

I have been holding my anger back, but I am getting tired of AoIR
becoming a listserve of inflated egos and the most egregious forms of
rudeness.  I would humbly request that from now on, we make some sort of
"civic pledge" to not dismiss people who disagree with us as "clowns"
and try to keep the list on topic.

Art McGee says:

>I'm so glad those folks are all gone now. That was 
> a truly sad time in cyberspace history. I hope they were able 
> to get some help. A mind is terrible thing to waste, you know.
> 
> 
> Art
> 

Yes, it is a terrible thing to have a listserve where not everyone
agrees with your own construction of reality.  Much better to dismiss
everyone who disagrees you as a "clown" (Art's description of Barry
Wellman), and get them off our mailing lists.  

Randolph Kluver
School of Communication and Information
Nanyang Technological University
31 Nanyang Link
Singapore, 637718
(65) 6790-5770
Fax (65) 6792-4329
"Aude aliquid dignum."