I agree with you, Pat. For the first time, I have set up a
filter to trash certain messages from this list.
Karin
At 04:44 PM 03/10/2007 +0000, Pat Lee wrote:
>As a regular reader and mostly lurker, I have enjoyed
the suggestions
>of good reading material and found great books from
many of the
>contributors; I consider this the main value of being
on this list.
>
>However, while I enjoy some of the discussions of
definitions of
>things like "noir" and "hardboiled", I found that
many of them
>recently have degenerated into somewhat disrespectful
disagreements
>and caustic barbs. Perhaps off-list communications
would be the
>proper forum to continue some of these debates,
especially if the
>back and forth goes beyond more than two exchanges. I
don't know if
>anyone else feels the same way, but I find myself
deleting a lot of
>messages if it appears the jist is an ongoing
argument. Thanks for
>listening.
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