Group: humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare
From: Tom Reedy
Date: Sunday, April 06, 2008 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: No, wasn't Oxford (or Marlowe or Bacon), and Shakespeare did not have to visit Venice

On Apr 6, 8:57 am, Art Neuendorffer
wrote:
> > > Christian Lanciai wrote:
>
> > > > Jim has completely turned the HLAS into a worthless vomit by
> > > > corrupting it into a stratfordian propaganda site with himself as the
> > > > constant brainwasher hiding behind nonsense names, just to increase
> > > > the lying statistics of his vanity. I am afraid you partly inspired
> > > > him, Art, by submerging this forum in filibuster postings.
>
> > > > The only result of this has been that most
> > > > of the posters worth reading have left.
> .
> > Art Neuendorffer
>
> > > Pray, tell us, Christian:
> > > Who were/are the posters worth reading?
>
> .
>
> Christian Lanciai wrote:
>
> > A very apt and relevant question. As a general rule, I would say,
> > that, the rarer, the better. Even among your posts, Art, there is a
> > rare collection of readable ones.
>
> It is rather difficult to achieve readability when no one is providing
> any feedback on what is or is not comprehensible.

Start with all of them being incomprehensible, Art, and if any
exceptions occur we'll let you know.

> And it is rather pointless, if not depressing, to concentrate on
> readability when no one appears to be reading.

YOu've got it backwards. It is rather pointless, if not depressing, to
concentrate on posting when no one appears to be reading.

> As the Washington Post says: "If you don't get it, you don't get it."

But it's not only everybody except you who doesn't get it; obviously
you don't get it yourself.

> If 5% of my posts are readable that is still a lot of posts.

That's a big "if" that you haven't even begun to approach.

TR

>
> Art Neuendorffer