[ExI] A plea for improvement

[Fred C. Moulton]

I would like to make a small plea for improvement of this email forum.
There are a couple of ways which I think it would be improved and the
first to avoid generalizing from the comments of one or two individuals
to a larger group.  Specifically it seems that several individuals want
to make broad general statements about the libertarians in an context in
which the statements are not warranted.  Just because there are people
on this list who call themselves libertarian does not mean that what
they say has anything to do with the libertarian philosophy or movement.
The same thing applies for socialism or any other similar category.   If
person S identifies as socialist and makes a statement with which you
disagree then please do not respond with a derogatory comments about
socialists; instead if the comment was made person S then please make
sure your comments are about person S and not socialists in general.

Secondly can I strongly suggest that everyone spend more time thinking
about what they are going sent.  Frankly I think the quality of the
discourse on extropy-chat has dipped significantly in the past couple of
months.  Spending a bit more time making sure that statements are
accurate and making sure that use of terminology (technical, legal, etc)
is correct will go a long way in improving the list.

Thanks

Fred