From: Michael Williams (michaelj.williams@TISCALI.CO.UK)
Date: Sun May 16 2004 - 17:53:22 EDT
The volume of traffic has always flutuated widely, both as a whole and from individual members. Reading this as any kind of evidence of dissatisfaction with Jerry is rubbish. michael ------------------------------------ Michael Williams Harrow Business School (E3.09) Watford Road Harrow Middlesex HA1 3TP tel: 020 7911 5000 #4563 fax: 020 7911 5931 Home tel: 023 80768641 Home Fax: 0871 242 5819 michaelj.williams@tiscali.co.uk M.J.Williams02@wmin.ac.uk mobile: 07906 172655 http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mwilliams > -----Original Message----- > From: OPE-L [mailto:OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU] On Behalf Of > Rakesh Bhandari > Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 5:32 PM > To: OPE-L@SUS.CSUCHICO.EDU > Subject: Re: (OPE-L) Re: old and new publishing technologies > > > >Raklesh: > > > >> By the way, there is inter library loan and there are copying > >> machines. > > > >Yes. There are also bread lines. There are homeless > shelters. There are > >charities. You sound like Scrooge. To suggest to students, > workers and > >scholars that the answer is inter-library loans and/or > copying (which, > >btw, the publisher might not appreciate and is probably > illegal) shows > >great insensitivity. > > > So the Freeman, Kliman and Wells volume has the same > importance as food and shelter would if you were homeless? > And one certainly could not infer from your original post > that you were bewailing the inaccessibility of the volume. > This is all post facto elaboration. It seemed to be another > snide and insubstantive criticism, of the sort that has > already driven many people from the list. By the way, are you > threatening to rat me out? Just to be clear: the Witt Hansen > book is long out of print, so I did not violate any copyright laws. > > > > > >> I would think that nine years of coordinating would > increase your > >> resolve to step down. There is bound to be frustrations > with anyone > >> over that period of time. > > > >Indeed, there are frustrations to be expected over that period of > >time. That is why I am so encouraged to _stay_ as > coordinator. There > >are now eighty-seven (87) members of OPE-L. You are the > only one (1) > >that has called for my resignation. That is an _excellent_ approval > >rating. > > > Well no several list members quit in disapproval of your > moderation. They include Alejandro, Massimo, Julian and > others. Why don't you > tell us who quit because you are moderator? Moreover, the great > majority of OPE-L members are members in name only. > > > > > > > >> I would like for your posts to be queried > >> in terms of their ethics of solidarity by someone with the > >> administrative power that you have monopolized. I would > like someone > >> else to have the same influence on who is admitted to this > list or > >> not. > > > >We have an Advisory Committee. > > Alfredo quit. Fred does not seem actively involved. We > haven't heard from Allin in some time. You have been running > the show too long. > > LBJ stepped down, so should you and Rumsfeld. More seriously, > nine years is enough. It's time to rotate. > > Rakesh >
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