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I was very happy to see this feature of printing all letters. (Assuming only a needlessly abusive few are being stricken off the site). It allows knowledgeable readers to
provide knowledge and info in response to an article which was
missing from the article itself. It allows opinionated readers
to opinionate. It allows readers who percieve a one-sided bias
within an article to offer an other-sided bias in hope that it
all averages out to some kind of balanced collection of views
and facts. And if a huge preponderance of letters tend to lean
one way in their opinion of a writer's grasp of facts or subservience to a theory, Salon itself has a chance to look into
it and see if a huge preponderance of letters might be pointing
toward an actual problem with the coverage of a subject.
I hope your new upgrades don't make this fine new feature
harder to access or use in practice.
(Signing with a madeup name is a tradition, as far as I
can see, on blogsites. Some of most scholarly and responsible
letters I have seen are signed.. Clearlymade Upname.
