Biblical Hebrew Forum

[George Athas <George.Athas AT moore.edu.au>]

May I encourage those members who seeking a new list, to do what they plan to 
do there, here. B-Hebrew exists for its members. It sounds to me like a new 
list would merely be doubling up on what we are doing, unless you want to 
restrict membership closely and censor/edit posts so that it becomes more 
like an online journal. B-Hebrew is only what its members make of it. So, if 
you want B-Hebrew to discuss certain things, then please discuss them - you 
belong to this forum.

If you create a new list, what's to say that we all won't join up with that 
one, too?

As I see it, B-Hebrew is like a big lounge room with numerous conversations 
going on at the same time. If some people do not want to contribute a 
conversation or participate in one, there's not much point in complaining 
about others who are. If you want to go into another 'room' and start 
discussing there, why not save yourself the trouble and just start discussing 
here? The only way you'll create something different is by locking people out 
of the 'room' you're going to. In the end, therefore, a new list would simply 
be the bathroom of B-Hebrew.

And remember: email programs have filters and all keyboards have a delete 
key. It's only the moderators who need to read every message.



Regards,

GEORGE ATHAS
Co-Moderator, B-Hebrew
(Sydney, Australia)