[CH] Recipes, listservers and life.
Cameron Begg (begg.4@osu.edu)
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 09:02:47 -0600
Hi C-H's,
[Sorry - most of this is not directly chile related.]
In a funny sort of way I quite like the mildly rancorous (if that's not an
oxymoron) exchanges such as the present one involving recipe posting. The
reason is, that it illustrates clearly how many people value this list
highly, otherwise they would not go to the bother of trying to make minor
course corrections. Chuck is one of those people. He and I have been on
this list for many years now and while I do not always agree with him (or
he with me for that matter) he still remains one of my C-H cyberchums whose
opinions I value.
Somebody also commented that it was not up to an individual subscriber to
comment upon the postings of others and that that should be left to the
list owner, but I think that he/she missed an important point. This list
belongs to all of us. The occasional mild rebuke and considered replies
keeps it going the way it has for a long time. Our list owner, IMO wisely,
stays very much out of sight as far as regulating list content is concerned.
It always strikes me as remarkable that such a large number of people,
scattered all over the world, can be united and polite on the range of
topics we discuss. It confounds the critics of internet discussion who
maintain that such a thing is impossible. Makes me proud to be one of you,
and as a result I'm afraid, over-defensive of our Sacred List! This is why
sometimes we (Hi Peter!) beg you not to duplicate text or post untried
recipes.
Nearly perfect is good enough for me. Chile-on dudes.
{Switching off "Cardinal" mode.}
Regards, Cameron.