[Air-l] AoIR list and professional courtesy

[salterl]

Yes professional courtesy would be a good idea. However, it seems that not all 
were courteous to Art when he made his comments about the nature of 
capitalism. Many responses refused to deal with hios proposition fairly and 
might even be said to have rubbished it. If people don't want to discuss 
something, then you don't have to. If, however, attempts are made to belittle 
a discussion because it is frowned upon to bite the teets that feed us, then 
this is clearly uncivic.

>===== Original Message From air-l at aoir.org =====
>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."
>
>
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