Well there is in my opinion a big difference between a verbal fight (which tends to get personal, involves name calling and insults) and a healthy disagreement on an adult level. We can learn a great deal from disagreement. Different ideas make us rethink what we do, why we do it, and how we can make our work better. If it degrades to comments like you are an idiot, its time to use the delete button and either ignore or move on to the next list. Nothing can be learned from such a discussion. Now I am a fairly new member, but I don't ever remember anyone ever really degrading a discussion to that level Just my 2 cents. --- On Fri, 10/10/08, Mario Pires <retorta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Mario Pires <retorta@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: Auntie Em? > To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Friday, October 10, 2008, 11:38 AM > 2008/10/10 Lea Murphy <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > You miss the verbal fights? > > Wow. You must be sadistic. > > > > I hated them. > > > > I think that verbal "fights" (not insults or > aggression) give some amount of > energy to a group, but perhaps i am impatient and dont like > to sail in calm > waters... > > > > > > > > This forum (and some of the missing members) taught me > what the internet > > was all about...what a global community really could > be, how writings could > > be misinterpreted and how you can find the best and > the worst of people in > > their written word and shared images. > > > > This was the first forum I ever participated in. I > have joined others (and > > left most of them) but there is nothing out there like > this group. > > > > Lea > > > > > > On Oct 10, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Mario Pires wrote: > > > > Are we in Nostalgia mode ? > > > > Things changed much since i started following this > list (technology and > > otherwise), but Andy and some people here deserve to > be read, that's why i > > keep following this list, even if i stay silent for > months. > > > > I miss the verbal fights of "the golden age of > ML" :) > > > > > > > > 2008/10/10 Pini Vollach > <pinimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >> I think Bob Rosen's reviews were the reason > for me to stay ( for a long > >> time ) in this mailing list. > >> I learnt a lot from him. > >> That was about 10 years ago ...? > >> > >> Pini > >> > >> > >> ציטוט Robert Earnest: > >> > >> And thanks for liking the image. And how is Jan? > I do miss him but > >> I miss Bob Rosen a lot more. > >> > >> > >> I guess I miss Chilled Delirium the most. > >> There was a person that felt life and made me feel > alive too. > >> His reviews were like poetry. They gave me hope. > >> One of the smartest, most sensitive and genuine > people ever to grace this > >> list. I forget who pissed him off. > >> > >> Bob Rosen was a trip. > >> Kind of a gun toting hippie with brains that was > likely to park his > >> Winnebago in your backyard at any second... Loved > that guy too. > >> Probably in the witness protection plan somewhere. > I wonder if I still have > >> his number? > >> > >> R > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > Mário Pires > > > > Curso de Estética Fotográfica - Começo a 7 de > Outubro - > > http://esteticafotografica.org > > > > > > retorta@xxxxxxxxx > > http://www.retorta.net > > http://twitter.com/retorta > > > > > > > > babies. they're what i do. > > www.leamurphy.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Mário Pires > > Curso de Estética Fotográfica - Começo a 7 de Outubro - > http://esteticafotografica.org > > > retorta@xxxxxxxxx > http://www.retorta.net > http://twitter.com/retorta
