Hi Alouette,

I haven't read David Wolfe's books and I don't condone plagiarism, but
I
have been curious about his recent book because of some of the
endorsements
from people I respect, like Gabriel Cousens and Viktoras Kulvinskas.
Maybe
being a plagiarist helped him figure out how to write a good book
himself?
But I have been reluctant to buy it until he comes out with either a
refutation of the plagiarism charges or an apology.

As far as being thrown off of lists for "chronic hostility," I have
seen
plenty of that on e-mail lists, and I don't give a lot of weight to
those
kinds of subjective judgments.  E-mail is a very convenient way to
communicate, but it is a pale shadow of real face to face interaction,
and
there is great room for misunderstanding.  Words which seem hostile
when
viewed on a page or a screen may seem completely benign and even
humorous
when they are spoken to you in person.  Likewise, seemingly innocuous
words
may be coming from an extremely negative place.  I have been accused
on more
than one occasion of being extremely negative in e-mails when I didn't
feel
I was being negative at all.

But even if posts are clearly hostile, there is seldom any need to
throw
somebody off a list.   If we would all just try to respond to each
others'
facts or ideas and not respond to or initiate personal attacks, then
there
would be no need to throw anyone off a list, because any hostile
attacks
that do take place would die out for lack of anybody to fight with.

Mark
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