[Sigia-l] In defence of Ziya

[Heather Ebey]

Thank you, Sean. Well said. I always look forward to seeing what Ziya 
has to say
on a subject. Of course, I am just a lurker and haven't been on the 
sharp-end.
Sometimes he is a bit caustic, but most of us are at times.
--Heather
(library school student)
Now back to lurking and ...safety.

On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 09:22  AM, Sean Lawrence wrote:
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> Ziya provides a much needed service for us as well.  Being members of 
> a community who have to justify the very existence of our profession, 
> we need to be challenged, confronted, and forced to rethink our 
> assumptions.  If you can't handle that, then maybe this isn't the 
> correct field for you and you don't belong on this list.  People who 
> take his comments so seriously remind me of folks who *really* think 
> that typing in upp-case is yelling.
> I for one would find SIGIA-L far less interesting and colorful without 
> Ziya.  Email is much like radio and TV, you can change the channel (or 
> in this case filter the content).  This group certainly shouldn't be 
> advocating ANY kind of censorship, as it is counterproductive to our 
> collective goals.
>
> -Sean