12867: Why aren't this listserver reserved to Academia....? Corbett responds

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

From: Edy Sanon <esanon@gate.net>

Everything from this list indicates that we are doing exactly what Haitians
of all ways of life are doing: criticizing the past, what is going on, and
personalities; continuing to deepen the unfortunate Haitian way of life. The
only difference here remains in the fact that we take the same malformation
into a new medium, a listserver on the internet.
Wouldn't that be a remarkable project, if from the street way of dealing
with the Haitian problems and all others, we reshape the ways we have been
exposing or given the Haitian problems into a resolving academic equation
capable of bringing infrastructure to Haiti?

Haiti is going nowhere without infrastructure that any country necessitates.
Whether with money from foreign or domestic sources, Haiti is doomed to
simply survive to produce the kind of political leaders we have been seeing
all along our political, social, cultural, and economic history. Please. If
you are from the hallways of universities, do not sit down and wait for a
given government to approach you, use this listserver to join in brains to
foster rebuilding of Haiti with academic research.

Thanks!
Edy

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Bob Corbett responds:  Edy, as a retired professor of philosophy, I
certainly welcome academics to the list and there are many one it.
However, it was the FARTHEST thing from my mind back in 1994 when I
started this list that it would in any way be limited to academics.  No
will it while I run it.

In my view everyone has a right to thoughts and ideas not only academics.
I appreciate the academic world and its methods and ways.  It is only
one way.  Not all academics are bright and learned.  Certainly not all
non-academics are not.

I would welcome the most sophisticated level of talk we can have on the
list, but it will always be open to anyone with views, not matter what
they are, or from what perspective they come.

Bob Corbett