[CASA] mails about situation in Israel / Palestine / Lebanon

[Ihab Saloul]

Dear Mark,
Hope all is well and thanks a lot for the message! This is just to say that
I got it and I will do my best to get back to you with a Full answer on the
points your are raising in your email as soon as possible (hopefully later
today), especially the *"off topic", relevance and "what people want and
don't want to read/post on casa, etc".* So, please patiance!!
Ihab


On 7/19/06, Mark Peter Wege <mail at markwege.de> wrote:
>
> Dear Ihab,
>
> you have been posting quite a few mails about the situation in Israel /
> Palestine / Lebanon on the casa list lately. I do not know how to put this
>
> without hurting your feelings because in am aware this is about your home
> country, your family and friends. But my feeling is that these mails in
> this
> amount are off topic on the casa list. I have just started to configure my
>
> mail reader to mark them automaticly as read, so I wont see them any more.
> But this is a technical social for a social problem, which other people on
> the list may not have. It is not that I am uninterested, I am following
> the
> news. But the news (more and more information) does not change my generel
> feeling about the conflict. I feel helpless and stunned. The deeper
> insight
> and analyses you are trying to provide us will not change this for me and
> I
> believe also not for others. People who want to be regulary updated on the
> conflict will look for other information sources than the casa list which
> was
> made for the participants to exchange and share information between the
> meetings (that what I see as the purpose). This mean the topic is not in
> general off topic, but there is a need for responsible way of dealing with
> it. May information about a meetings, conferences or mailing lists on that
> or
> some personal coments and then not so often. Something for people who want
> to
> be encouraged to do something. I believe this would be great and helpful
> in
> the casa context.
>
> It is a shame that you were not on the casa meeting this year. But I will
> be
> in Amsterdam again by the end of the next week for a few days. So we can
> also
> discuss this personally if you like.
>
> All the best,
>
> Mark
> --
> "Wo die Neurosen wuchern, will ich Landschaftsgärtner sein!"
>                     Element of Crime, Mittelpunkt der Welt
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