[sdiy] Civility on the List

[Grant Richter]

This list was populated with the most highly respected specialized  
experts on the PLANET. Many of the rest are people with degrees or  
advanced degrees.
University degrees are good place to start, if you then add to that  
years of personally funded original research.

Flat out contradicting known and respected experts is silly and makes  
the contradicting poster look stupid. I sadly watched the  
exasperation level of the real experts raise over the years. I know  
who the expert posters are, because I do background checks and read  
their web pages before responding.

The "because I said so" attitude is completely unacceptable in a peer  
review setting. If you are not willing to justify inflated  
performance claims with published factual data, then don't post them.  
You just look foolish by doing so.

I respectfully suggest that posters consider the emotional impact of  
their posts, and develop their diplomatic skills in general. If we  
can not maintain the civility I would expect from a person to person  
professional conference, then this list has lost the ability to  
advance the state of the art in synthesis.

In Closing: Cloning existing designs part by part is not an  
advancement in the state of the art of synthesis. Only applying  
original thinking to existing ideas can produce new avenues of  
research. For this, I heartily salute Prof. Lanterman who is teaching  
this methodology to his students.

On Apr 23, 2007, at 10:12 AM, karl dalen wrote:

> Yes, the list appears to be stone dead!
> Time to run the backuplist again i suppose!
>
> Your next message didnt appear!
>
> KD
>
> --- megaohm <megaohm1 at gmail.com> skrev:
>
>> I read you. Karl. Are you having trouble posting to SDIY? I am,  
>> too. See my
>> next messege (hopefully) .
>>
>> p.
>>
>> On 4/22/07, karl dalen <dalenkarl at yahoo.se> wrote:
>>>
>>> bla, bla, bla ,bla.....testing 123!
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>>> KD
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