Kata Markon

[JFAlward AT aol.com]

In a message dated 12/28/01 5:11:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
jgibson000 AT attbi.com writes:

<< But Kata Markon is **not** a Mark 101 List. Since, as the Kata Markon List
 Description notes,  the List is intended to be a forum for the exchange of 
views
 on matters Markan among **professionals and graduate students** in the field 
of
 Biblical Studies, and in Markan studies in particular,  it really isn't
 (ordinarily) the best place to moot  Mark 101 questions.  It is the 
perception
 that the question on basic parable bibliography was such a question which 
(I'm
 assuming) engendered the response to which you object.
  >>

Stating that you believe that the professor's request was inappropriate is 
equivalent to saying that forum members' helpful responses to it are likewise 
inappropriate, which is a slap to their faces.  I think this is an 
unnecessarily oppressive intervention, and is insulting to some forum 
members, and it's not the first time you treated them with condescension.  It 
is your list to do with as you please; from my point of view, however, you've 
done very little with it.  By my count, this forum has average only about 
five or six posts a month.  Perhaps if you fostered a more friendly, more 
inclusive, less-elitist attitude on the part of forum members, you might find 
that both the quality and quantity of the Kata Markan posts will increase.