Re: Gum hardening: top down experiment ( pointlessness)

Sandy

People come to this list hoping for information and intelligent debate.
When they find long drawn out accounts related to pointless tests, they leave. Do
you consider that to be acceptable ?

As a leading light in this community for some years you, Sandy, have a
responsibility to offer guidance suggesting that these pointless debates do not
happen just as much as you take your responsibilities seriously in offering
advice as to how to do things.. Saying, as you do, "if you think the tests are a
waste of time, stay away from them" just reduces the standard of debate and
the usefulness of the list. That is irresponsible. It is a surprising attitude
for a teacher.

I am not the only one here who has pointed out that many of these tests are
'worthless', 'pointless.', 'serve no useful purpose'. The people who make
these comments are not arrogant, not only do they not want their time wasted,
they are concerned that those new to alternative processes may be tempted to
take this stuff seriously.. Many people just leave finding the list a waste of
their time. Is that what you want ? What is perhaps worse, is that many who
could make a really worthwhile contribution just lurk as the standard of debate
is often so low.. Is that what you want ?

Thank the Lord that there is no academie de gomme. The difficulty here is
that the list is pontificated to, your words, by those with no understanding of
how gum behaves, again your words..

Terry

To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, a gum is a gum is a gum whether it comes out of
a factory or a tree.

In a message dated 13/4/06 2:22:33 pm, sanking@CLEMSON.EDU writes:

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> Why the  "I do wish though is that we could avoid these tests" lament? 
> There is absolutely nothing keeping you from avoiding them. If you think the
> tests are a waste of time, stay away from them. But if others believe something
> useful might come of them,  who are you to pontificate about how they should
> be spending their time, or suggest that it is a "waste of time." That is a
> fairly arrogant attitude in my book. As far as I know there is no Academie des
> gommistes to dictate how we use the sticky sap. If there were you would be
> brought up on charges for using that kid's glue/gloy stuff instead of *real*
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> I think it is well and good that people have been getting good results for
> the past 150 years making gum prints the traditional way, but a but of
> curiosity about other ways should hardly pose a threat to the establishment.
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> Sandy
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Received on Thu Apr 13 09:20:23 2006