Dear Colleagues- Owing to problems in communicating with Bruce about posting the articles for discussion polling booth, which were entirely my fault, my editorial comment was included among those being voted on. This seems an error to me. I have regretted that those who read this list and only read the article for discussion posted free after a vote are missing an essential function of the editorials which is to raise issues of general concern to the MCA/XMCA community, leading to restricted discussions on XMCA that could most usefully be general. On the other hand, the idea of the posting of articles submitted and reviewed in the journal is to allows as broad an international community of scholars as possible to have their work discussed without waiting years for feedback and that idea is not well served by the editorials. Consequently, in this case, I have asked that bruce jones re-set the voting booth and remove my editorial. At the same time. I am attaching the editorial here for discussion. Perhaps Wolf-Michael or Ray McDermott and collaborator will wish to do the same, or perhaps others who write editorials I (the greater variety of voices we all hear, the better!!) will choose to do so. My apologies for the inconvenience i have caused. The new polls should be in place early in the week if not before. Since it will be a week or so before we have the results of that poll, if people want to discuss the editorial, fine. But there is an important discussion going on right now that may supercede the issues I raise. mike
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