I will implement Stephen's suggestion as follows:

I am opening a second list called "dialectics", with all the existing members of the "hegel" list on it. Anyone who would like to limit their mail to Hegel's philosophy and exclude tangential discussions on special topics, be they economics, science or whatever, may ask to be deleted from the "dialectics" list, and still receive mail to the "hegel" list.

OK?

Andy

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