[stylist] Off-Topic Discussions

Wed Jun 8 17:05:21 UTC 2011

Donna,
Thank you, but no apology necessary. I am a learner about procedure.
I am glad that I did comment on your story chapter. If I do not critique or
comment on everybody's work it is because there are so many e-mails that
there is not enough time to go into depth, and I do not just like to say,
"Wonderful" without saying why it is.
A question for you and everyone: I have been told that when you put a poem
on the internet, it is considered as being published, and you should not
then be sent to a contest. This seems a severe restriction when wanting
serious comment from fellow writers. 
How do the rest of you deal with this problem. I assume that everyone would
like to be published but still want to share their efforts short of
publication.
This is in your e-mail, Donna, because you seem to be very knowledgeable
about writing issues. It takes awhile to put together e-mails with names
when remembering all the content.
Thanks for your help.
Jacqueline Williams 

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Donna Hill
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 2:59 PM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [stylist] Off-Topic Discussions

Jacqueline,
My apologies to you as well. I did not intend to start a discussion, merely
to impart blindness related information. 
Donna

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Jacqueline Williams
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 1:30 PM
To: 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [stylist] Off-Topic Discussions

Neil,
I agree with you. Just from a practical standpoint, my e-mails are almost
hopeless to keep up with even when dealing with writing. And that is what I
want and need.
If a person wants to comment on food politics, then a suggestion might be to
put it in a poem or another publishing form. Then it can be legitimately
critiqued without getting into our own views as an argument.
Jacqueline Williams

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Neil Butters
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2011 8:57 AM
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Subject: [stylist] Off-Topic Discussions

Hello,

I would like to address the use of this mailing list for off-topic
discussions, such as the recent NYC Blind Vendors postings and other
non-writing related topics.

Shouldn't this list be restricted to writing topics only? I'm getting a
little bit tired of being flooded with off-topic back-and-forths, political
commentary, arguments and the like that belong elsewhere. Does anyone else
feel the same way? Shouldn't these posts be discouraged, or am I missing the
point of this list.?

One way we could deal with it, if people want such off-topic diatribe to
continue, would be to include the "Off-topic" designation in the subject to
tell readers that the post has nothing to do with writing. This doesn't
really solve the "problem," though, since we could still receive many
off-topic messages.

Neil

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