[Buddha-l] Rain

[Richard Hayes]

On Sunday 26 August 2007 19:00, Stephen Hodge wrote:

> Sorry, my last message was intended for private reading.
> My apologies if I have caused offence.

It was to prevent such potentially embarrassing gaffes that we began decided 
to moderate buddha-l when it was first set up. Now most people are allowed to 
post unmoderated, which makes everything (including inadvertent postings) go 
much more quickly. I am always open to reconsidering our moderation policies. 
Anyway who has anything to say about it can always contact me off list.

As for offense, the only thing you have said lately to raise my brow was the 
claim (I forget the exact wording) that buddha-l once had pretensions of 
being quasi-scholarly. It's true that buddha-l was (really was, not only 
pretending to be) a scholarly list until about ten years ago, when it merged 
with the non-academic list known as buddhist. Now it's meant to be a 
discussion group for people who don't mind things occasionally getting 
seriously off topic and who don't mind occasional silliness and playfulness.

In any event, I agree with you that your discussion with Dan is perfectly 
acceptable here. If people are not interested in reading it, they can delete. 
Que l'on continue.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico