time to change the tune

[Jan Houben]

It is sometimes easy to be carried away, but  in order to protect the large
majority of "good guys/girls" from this list and in order not to scare them
away:
Dominik's old rule of thumb "two warnings then out" (stemming from the early
times of the "wild" indology list) should be announced, should be known to
all list members and should be adhered to.
Jan Houben




On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:12 AM, <mkapstei at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> I find the use of the Indology list
> by our colleagues in Germany to be
> tiresome in the extreme and not
> to accord very well with the purposes
> for which Indology was established.
>
> If this continues much longer, I, for
> one, will withdraw my name from the subscription list.
>
> Perhaps a separate listserve dedicated to
> settling scores in Germany should be contemplated,
> so that those interested in this will have
> their own playpen.
>
>
> Matthew T. Kapstein
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies
> The University of Chicago Divinity School
>
> Directeur d'études
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
>