Mr. Suzuki's posts (was RE: old literatures)

I believe Mr. Suzuki's posts are not intended to be rude, but in my
experience they are easily perceived that way.

For some reason, on which I do not care to speculate, he tends to reply to
posts in a manner that appears dismissive and arrogant, as in "You are
making EXACTLY the mistake I have warned against," or "Your idea is
COMPLETELY illogical," or "You have TOTALLY ignored the kinetics of the
reaction" or "You have FAILED to consider..."

Again, I do not care to speculate on the reasons. But I note that on his own
list, the silvergrain list, his percieved attitude has virtually shut down
all posting. There were four posts there last month, two of them from Mr.
Suzuki himself. As for myself, I do not care to post there, even though I am
actively experimenting with silver halide emulsions, fearing that anything I
post will be rebutted in a manner will keep me awake at night gritting my
teeth.

He is a careful and thoughtful worker and I hope he remains welcome on this
list despite the teeth-gritting.

David Foy

-----Original Message-----
From: Monnoyer Philippe [mailto:monnoyer@imec.be]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 3:42 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca
Subject: RE: old literatures

Dear Ryuji,

I am PhD in colloidal science and an emulsion maker. As I understand, you
are involved in chemistry as well. Since I am on the list I came to know
that most of the participants need practical information and like to
understand what is happening in their experiments. On the other hand, most
of them don't give a crap for exhaustive deep scientific statements. I think
what might have been taken as "rude" is the gap between your arguments and
what people can understand from it. This is not a phys.chem. list, so if you
step into it, maybe you should try to make your knowledge reachable for your
audience (for example, "...elemental sulfur cleaves the ring and make
polysulfide ions of various lengths ...", half cell potential concept ,
...).
You won't be less rigourous with a pinch of teaching art. I am sure your
knowledge is interesting for the people on the list.

Philippe
Received on Mon Nov 3 15:53:01 2003