italian-studies: Scholarly discussions in any field of Italian studies
Dear italian-studies colleagues,
A few of you have, from time to time, brought something to my attention that I should share with you.
Take a look at the line at the top of this message, reading:
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When you reply to a list message, these lines will be placed in the message once more. So, if you have not removed manually these incipits and explicits from the message(s) to which you are replying, they will be sent out into the ether once more, along with the new ones added to your own reply.
I believe that the list record for repeated explicits is seven; that's a good seventy-seven lines - of which sixty-six are completely unnecessary. They take up, cumulatively, a fair chunk of cyberspace; they also take up a lot of space when you print out a hard copy of a message.
So, everyone, please be eco-friendly, and conserve these precious incipits and explicits. When you reply to a list message, please remove the old 'headers' and 'footers' (to use the trendy, modern and utterly redundant equivalents to perfectly good medieval codicological terms :-) ) -- indeed, please delete all parts of the original message that are extraneous to your precise reply. Your reply will be much easier to understand and to read, and you'll be saving valuable cyberspace for Really Important Things (like more web sites dedicated to Berlusconi's hair replacement techniques).
Best wishes, George
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George Ferzoco
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