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From: carnes@gargoyle.UChicago.UUCP (Richard Carnes)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: netnews integrity
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Date: Fri, 10-May-85 11:56:15 EDT
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In article <> janet@cbosgd.UUCP (Janet) writes:
>
>I find it strange that Dan's articles always make it to cbosgd, cbscc, utzoo,
>alice and so-on, but no reply is heard from most of his opponents when their
>positions begin to look untenable (when I made this point to dan, he insisted
>that one of the reasons that Carnes dropped out of the discussion on marxist
>metaphysics was that any further discussion would probably require regurgita-
>ting huge excerpts from Hegel, but that doesn't explain the rest).  

You can't draw any conclusions from silence on the net.  Most of us
have little time for the netnews, especially if the topics being
discussed are not directly related to our studies or profession.  (A
good thing, too -- otherwise there would be 500 articles/day in
net.politics alone.)  As a grad student in econ, Dan seems to derive
more marginal utility from writing articles for net.politics* than
most of us.  

I was under the impression that *Dan* had dropped out of that
discussion because he had been soundly thrashed.  Oh well -- I'm sure
Janet believes that her hero trounced the opposition, and I'm touched
by her hero-worship.

Richard Carnes