[Frameworks] Please stop responding with sarcasm (alert)

[Fred Camper]

This all started with a request that, even if Mason retracted it, is a  
request of others on this list: Let's ban all attachments. Now.

The unwarranted assumptions and personal comments about what a Yale  
student should have as resources and the like are offensive. No one on  
this list should ever have their financial situation and other access  
situations subject to speculation. There are many different email  
systems. Some leave messages on servers with limited space. Some  
download to your computer. There is no way of knowing whether  
attachments are an annoyance or not, even if unopened, to any  
particular list member. I never open them, and they do cause problems  
for me anyway.

I am not on this list because I "enjoy experimental film." I am on it  
because I have cared deeply, for most of my life, about many  
"experimental" films, and the deeply engaged social views underlying  
some of them. The majority of "experimental" films are not very  
interesting to me. But I'm never going to learn about new ones if they  
are announced only in attachments rather than by posting a url to a  
Web site with the info. And I'll venture I'm not the only one on this  
list who doesn't open attachments.

As for "dumbing down," sorry, Cari, but you should know by now that  
Chuck and I have very low IQs. You can see by examining our long  
careers that we are of very limited intelligence and are actually  
mentally challenged. Instead of adding to the hurtfulness of those  
truths, you should acknowledge that this list has many different types  
of people on it, including, in actual fact, people who are not native  
English speakers and are just going to miss the boundless subtleties  
of your delicately poetic writing. Therefore, I think posts should be  
straightforward and as clear as possible. I never like it when people  
treat their posts as art works. But of course, I am rather limited, as  
you like to keep observing, even while accusing me of name calling.

Fred Camper
Chicago