[Meta
I am responding to this message from the queue because it is obviously
directed to me alone and it is time sensitive.
/Meta --Paul]


I am currently developing a review of "Social Meta-Needs*:A New Basis
for Optimal Interaction" and other documents on the selfsip site
(particularly the ones pertaining to Social Preferencing).

[I am very pleased to see this happening and greatly look forward to
it. --Paul]


My concern is that the review is already longer than 7 pages, and I am
less than halfway through the process. Should I chop it up into
manageable sections, or just post what could be a 20+ page review when
I complete the task?

Chad Nelson

[I suggest that you break it up into sections related to those in the
SMN document. In addition, your reference to "pages" suggests that you
may be using MSWord to write the review. If so please change to a more
text oriented editor, since MSword format does not copy/paste well
into Yahoo text format - even many characters do not translate. BTW, I
signed your name *again* for you. --Paul]


[Meta
Chad,
In private correspondence, I take that view that generally the
speediness of a response suggests the level of interest and enthusiasm
of the respondent in conversing with the message sender and I expect
that you take this view also. Therefore, so that there is no
misunderstanding between us, I want you to know the reason why I have
not yet replied to your two other messages.
The reason is that some time ago I voluntarily decided (and announced
it as new policy) that I and Kitty would not respond to any message on
the group for at least a week. The purpose of this was to let others
have a chance to respond before I and Kitty did, partly because it
appeared that I was dominating the group (and some people accused me
of this). Since this delaying of response has had virtually no effect
on increasing the responses from others, I have now retracted my
pledge to wait at least 7 days. However, I still do generally wait a
few days to see if others will say something.
/Meta --Paul]