economics

[dave evans]

: ) I seem to have stirred up the folk here a bit- to the ironic extent that
today's digest is ENTIRELY about economics........ here's my take on it

1) i'm on this list for Hawkwind material, if i want "Consumer Economics
101"  i would subscribe to ++ that ++  list

2) I have tried to change my settings to ON-list only, but it doesn't work
on the Digest version, hence my request to TAKE it offlist, not merely MARK
it as such and still post to the list

3) there is a problem with people who make a three-line reply to a 50-line
posting and quote that 50 line posting in full.... then someone does a
3-line reply to the 3-line reply, quoting the other 50 and you get a 56-line
reply, which someone else writes an essay about and quotes in full.... and
someone else makes a two-line response to that essay, quoting the entire
body of the previous text, and someone else makes a smartass three word
reply to the essay and quotes it in full-  in other words a lot of
redundancy and repetition within each digest; the accumulation of which over
time DOES make a difference in download time- where i live has no broadband
and dialup is the only option

4) making this a "free speech" issue is really very petty and stupid, to
which the obvious response is that i am, within the same parameters, allowed
to post my "thoughts on everything" on this lsit, providing there is some
very tenuosu link to Hawkwind or BOC...........? I can bore the shit out of
people at great length with the best of them- perhaps you'd like to read my
20,000 word History thesis? It mentions a Hawk once or twice, so is arguably
relevant to the list

5) the initial premise, that somehow there is an official and regualted way
that bands get paid from secondhand sales was +++ pretty flaky +++ in any
case

jmo
Dave (a Hawkfan, not a wobbly Economics theorist)