I thought this list was about leps!

[kalos5 at earthlink.net]

My thanks to Anne and Neil for addressing my concerns about Neil's "background checks".
 
My questions are:

1.  Do we still have a moderator, after Leps-L was quiet for so long? 

2.  Are we as a list going to allow flaming, personal attacks, and the publication of irrelevant
personal and even family information as a "debate technique"?

I agree with Sean that this list should be about butterflies.  Perhaps setting some boundaries
might help us toward that goal.  

Martha W. Robinson


-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Mullen <spm23 at cornell.edu>
Sent: Aug 28, 2005 4:56 AM
To: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu
Subject: I thought this list was about leps!

Folks,

I'm not going to include snippets from the latest rounds of bruised  
ego postings that seems to plaque this list but I do have one point  
to make.

I'm interested in leps, butterflies predominantly in my case.  I am  
not interested in deleted 35 emails a day about who said what to whom  
and why it did or did not mean what he/she/they thought it meant.

I've been a member of this listserv for about 4 years.  I rarely post  
because there isn't often anything of true interest being discussed.

Let's get back to business.  Monarchs are fascinating but they're  
also clearly the charismatic microfauna of the lep-world, akin to  
pandas and right whales...lot's of strong opinions but a lot fewer  
real data.

Good luck with your never-ending vitriolic attacks.  I'm going to  
take my 14-month old out for a hike today.  Maybe we'll actually see  
some interesting insects.

Cheers,

Sean

Sean P. Mullen, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Biology
University of Maryland, College Park
College Park, MD 20742


 
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