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Practical alchemy e-mail archives
The alchemy forum has been through
four incarnations or phases. I began this discussion group in July 1995 as an
open unmoderated e-mail list. This open forum discussed many topics (not always
entirely relevant to alchemy) in considerable depth and attracted a number of
scholars, however, eventually a few manipulative individuals produced a degree
of chaos on the forum that was unacceptable. At the end of January 1996 I
decided to re-establish the forum as a fully moderated one. The messages were
then sequentially numbered. I chose to moderate this forum rather benignly,
chosing only to intervene when I felt a discussion was straying too far from the
topic of alchemy or if contributors were becoming too strident in their
criticisms of others. This benevolent moderation regime eventually led to
problems when a number of contributors to the forum would not accept my judgment
of what was and what was not relevant to the forum. After some difficulties in
July and August 1996 I decided to re-establish the forum as the alchemy academic
forum and restrict the discussion of alchemy to a more scholarly and less
speculative approach. During November 1996 a number of problem subscribers again
disrupted the forum, and I decided it would be best to separate out specialist
scholarly e-mail groups for serious discussion, and reestablish the alchemy
forum as an unmoderated e-mail general discussion group on alchemy.
Here are
the archived discussions of the practical alchemy e-mail group.
Scholarly
e-mail groups on alchemy.
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