[Sigia-l] My gratitude

[Listera]

I've been overwhelmed with all the email of support and concern that I
received privately as well as on the list. I apologize for not being able to
thank you individually as I want to and as I will as soon as I can. I'm
under a severe deadline to complete the IA/design of a webcasting app that
needs to go online very soon. But thank you, you have my gratitude.

I may have a thing or two to say about the matter, later.:-) But I wanted to
make a note of three things here very briefly.

I'm delighted that so many people on/off the list, lurkers and barkers
alike, stood up to defend anyone's right to contribute and rejected the
notion of a double standard, hopefully the list is self-inoculated against
bureaucratization and favoritism.

I'm also heartened by a lot of people's realization that criticizing
somebody's assertions and attacking them personally are two different
things, despite the attempts of those who'd like to cloud the issue and
avoid a rigorous examinations of their biases under the banner of victim
hood.

This list is still the premier venue on the web for discussing all manner of
issues concerning the broader umbrella of IA, not in spite of the sometimes
spirited exchanges it hosts, but precisely because of it. Those who don't
participate in the list and shy away from lively debate (no matter what
their stated excuse happens to be) do so because of their own choice, not
because there's anything broken with the list. And the SIGIA-L can be proud
of that.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba