Scholarly importance of Barry Popik's research

[Steve Kl.]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002, Lynne Murphy wrote:

> Yes, ADS-L is a community, but we're not, as a group, intimates.    Some
> people within the group may have the sorts of relationships in which one
> talks about more personal things, but then we do that off-list.  If there
> are particular people whom Barry (or anyone else) is trying to reach with
> the personal info, then that info should be sent only to those people
> rather than to all of us.  The reason I end up deleting is that I don't
> like having intimate relationships forced upon me when the interest is not
> reciprocal.

I concur with Lynne's entire post; thank you, Lynne, for writing what I
wanted to say but couldn't think of how to say it.

I think Ron's initial post was reasonable.

-- Steve