WSJ= Wall Street Journal. NR = National Review. MR= Marginal Revolution. VC= The Volokh Conspiracy. IP= Instapundit. RC= The Right Coast. DR = Drudge Report.

BROWSER

I write this in Movable Type 2.something and Mozilla. If it doesn't look good in Internet Explorer, please email me at [email protected]. E-MAIL

I read all my emails, but I am often very slow in replying, and sometimes I lose track. In particular, I have a backlog from the huge outpouring of positive and negative sentiment around October 2003 regarding some of post on the topic of homosexuality. I apologize to anyone I've missed-- and I'll still get back to you, I hope. But I think I've lost about 100 emails-- probably accidentally deleted. Do keep in mind that email is *not* a reliable form of communication, any more than messages on telephone answering machines, because accidental deletion is easy, and because I often get into huge backlogs. Paper letters at least pile up on a desk.

COMMENTS

I've just put in a comment feature, having moved to Moveable Type software instead of using raw HTML. I like much of what Professor Drezner has to say about interaction with readers:

1) I read every e-mail sent about the blog and every comment posted on the blog.

2) I won't necessarily reply to every e-mail message or respond to every posted query.

3) The likelihood of my replying has a lot more to do with how busy I am than with the content of your message.

4) I'm truly sorry for the non-responses.

5) Unless otherwise indicated, I will not attribute any quote from any e- mail on the blog.

6) When it comes to the comments feature, remember that I control the horizontal and the vertical. I will delete comments that I think are personally insulting, completely off-topic from the post, or so incoherent as to pass all understanding. My space, my rules.

If your emails are threatening or use obscenities, I will not feel obliged to reply. If you make comments of that kind, I'll delete them unless I want to use them as illustrations.

I have a sort of trackback search feature installed, though I'm not sure if it's working, but if you want to just give the address of a weblog posting as a comment, that's fine and would please me.

I might later adopt a policy of deleting comments I think are boring or repetitive-- that is, of acting as an editor-- but for now I won't do that.

When I quote, I will use "..." to indicate omitted material if I leave out parts of sentences and to show that intervening sentences exist within a paragraph or intervening paragraphs within an extended quote. I won't use "..." if I just drop earlier or later paragraphs or sentences.

I will use "[the]" if I insert the word "the" into a quote.

I will often but not always make "hat tip" links and mentions to blogs at which I discover good links to ultimate sources. I will tend to that most often for lesser-known blogs, figuring that Instapundit and Best of the Web don't need what little encouragement I can give them.

This weblog is not intended to stand as an "Intellectual History of Eric Rasmusen," so I will change entries freely if I discover additions or mistakes, usually not bothering to note the changes.