Re: your mail

I definitely do share all of Daniel Pineu's observation and
reservations about current wsn 'offerigns', and rely almost entirely on
the delete button, and am very tempted in a hurry to do the same as DP 
and to use the un-sub me one
sincerely and truly yours

gunder frank
 
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Daniel Pinéu wrote:

> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 16:15:44 -0000
> From: Daniel Pinéu <danielfrp@hotmail.com>
> To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu
> 
> Dear fellow members,
> Dear moderators,
> 
> When i joined the WSN list some almost a year ago, i was hoping to find 
> living, intellectually stimulating, fresh debate about World-Systems Theory.
> 
> Fresh after making my acquaintance with the seminal works of Wallerstein, AG 
> Frank, Chase Dunn and other "classics", I was looking for a place of open 
> theoretical debate to explore the enormous potential of World Systems 
> theorizing within Social Sciences, and especially my own field of studies: 
> International Relations.
> 
> Apparently i was mislead to believe that the WSN mailing list was such a 
> place.
> 
> Lately i was surprised to discover that the main objective of the list, so 
> it seems, is rather to
> 
> a)Relentlessly dissect and (re)elaborate on Marxist theory, despite the fact 
> that there are specialized mailing lists for that purpose
> 
> b)Engage in personal (and sometimes blatantly non-academical) attacks on 
> fellow members
> 
> c)Share with the list a wide variety of info about left wing activism,
> conspiracy theories, human rights violations, and other personal and public 
> concerns.
> 
> I don`t know whether any more fellow members share this view, but i hope the 
> number is significant enough for the moderators to do something about it. At 
> this moment of my intellectual life, however, i have no more time to waste 
> on vast amounts of virtually useless emails which keep circulating through 
> the list.
> 
> So, i am sorry to do this, but i am unsubscribing from the list. I would 
> like to say it has been an interesting experience, but the aforementioned 
> reasons speak for themselves in showing that it wasn't.
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