[Taxacom] An objective observation for Taxacom members

Sun May 1 20:05:09 CDT 2011

I might be reversing my stance here a bit, but I kind of like the banter and soapbox status of people that post here.  I like pontification.  I read newspapers and if I ever get sick of them, I can always fold them up and take a nap under them.  The same thing is true for Taxacom.  You probably can't take a nap under your laptop, but hopefully you have an apartment or library to go to.  My point is that, if you're sick of Taxacom, simply unsubscribe.  

I'm a lowly master's student, and I enjoy the "nutty" emails and "tit for tat" exchanges.  It's a learning opportunity for me.  

Hans Hallman
Subject: RE: [Taxacom] An objective observation for Taxacom members
Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 19:49:05 -0500
From: ccarlt at lsu.edu
To: stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz; leslie.adams at comcast.net; hanshallman at hotmail.com; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu

Message body

Unfortunately, Taxacom has degraded to a personal soapbox for a handful of subscribers who would rather argue and pontificate about systematic problems that they do not contribute to solving in meaningful ways and perhaps do not fully understand. Those of us who live in hope of an informative kernal of information every few days are greeted each morning by these long strings of silly 'tit for tat' exchanges...a daily disappointment and chore to delete, since they get stored in the deleted box and must ultimately be purged with yet more rounds of deleting. Personally, I'm sick of it!

And, no, nutty emails from Hawkswood to not need to be posted here. The best way to promote a megalomaniac is to transmit their personal barbs and grievances globally.

Could the moderator please step in and limit the pointless exchanges and lets try to get Taxacom back to the useful format for exchanging relevant systematic information like it used to be in the good old days?

Chris Carlton, Ph. D.

Director, Louisiana State Arthropod Museum

Dept. of Entomology and Adjunct, Dept. of Biological Sciences

LSU, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-1710

-----Original Message-----

From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu on behalf of Stephen Thorpe

Sent: Sun 5/1/2011 7:19 PM

To: Leslie M. Adams; Hans Hallman; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu

Subject: Re: [Taxacom] An objective observation for Taxacom members

at Taxacom, we are not afraid to grapple with the real nitty gritty ...

sensitive readers may be offended ...

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From: Leslie M. Adams <leslie.adams at comcast.net>

To: Hans Hallman <hanshallman at hotmail.com>; stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz;

taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu

Sent: Mon, 2 May, 2011 12:13:20 PM

Subject: RE: [Taxacom] An objective observation for Taxacom members

Hello,

I am a new to Taxacom and I must admit I am a bit shocked at the level of

dialog I have been observing. Is there no moderator here to screen out

unprofessional or even offensive submissions? I am a member of several other

professional listservs in the field of biology/ecology and I haven't seen

the frequency of inappropriate banter I have witnessed here.

Just wondering.

Leslie Adams

Leslie M. Adams, Ph.D.

Plant Systematics and Community Ecology

University System of New Hampshire

http://home.co-mcast.net/~leslie.adams/

Home Office: 603 / 659-6177

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we

created them." -  Albert Einstein

-----Original Message-----

From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu

[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Hans Hallman

Sent: Sunday, May 01, 2011 7:46 PM

To: stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu

Subject: Re: [Taxacom] more "wise words" from the "great" Dr Trevor J

Hawkeswood!!

Is this even worth passing on to the listserve?

Hans Hallman

> Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 14:29:17 -0700

> From: stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz

> To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu

> Subject: [Taxacom] more "wise words" from the "great" Dr Trevor J

Hawkeswood!!

>

> any psychologists on Taxacom?

>

> ----- Forwarded Message ----

> From: Dr TJHawkeswood <drtjhawkeswood at calodema.com>

> To: Stephen Thorpe <stephen_thorpe at yahoo.co.nz>

> Cc: Dr TJHawkeswood <drtjhawkeswood at calodema.com>

> Sent: Mon, 2 May, 2011 8:49:43 AM

> Subject: Re: Enquiry from Calodema - The Website of Dr Trevor J Hawkeswood

>

> Hi there you Hawkeswood hater!

>

> More files are up on the great calodema website and soon theres going to

be a

> flood from me.

>

> www.calodema.com rules and theres a lot wrong with biology and taxonomy in

the

> world

>

> and as i can see many biologists are assholes

>

> and I shall enjoy immensely revising their works and "cooking their fat

bodies

> over the flames" in other words, Ill stew them in their own juices.

>

> Dr TJHawkeswood

> www.calodema.com

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