Aren't we getting a bit testy?...

I think that this has been an interesting exchange but I am not sure that
any one writer can claim to be "right."

I was, myself, startled to read something on a museum educators' list that
was to me, an art historian/educator/writer almost unintelligible.  However
I was quite interested to learn what it all meant.

Perhaps we have here an issue of etiquette (or possibly the dreaded
"netiquette") alluded to by an earlier writer:  when list members pose
highly technical questions or reach out to specialists in new and/or obscure
bits of turf in the field, wouldn't it be polite/friendly/collegial/helpful
to open with a statement like "I am interested in reaching..."?

And perhaps we can move on.

Ellen Cutler

----- Original Message -----
From: Jay Heuman <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: <LOL!>


> I imagine Dorothy Parker's reaction to Mr Week's message (below): "This
> is not a book [message] that should be tossed lightly aside. It should
> be hurled with great force."
>
> Obfuscation is not the point, Mr. Weeks, and you know it.  Communication
> within disciplines requires the use of accepted terminology.  If you're
> not in that discipline, then you don't have to know the terminology.
> Plain and simple, eh?
>
> Yours truly,
>
> Jay Heuman
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> > Behalf Of Ross Weeks
> > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 1:28 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [Re: [Harmony/CIMI Research Project Call for
> Participation]]
> >
> > We need a new bumper sticker:  Promote Obfuscation.
> > Ross Weeks Jr.
>
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