As Plato, impersonating Socrates, has it: "And in like manner if you want to
hear me and Protagoras discoursing, you must ask him to shorten his answers,
and keep to the point, as he did at first; if not, how can there be any
discussion? For discussion is one thing, and making an oration is quite
another, in my humble opinion."
P
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Roger Day
> Sent: 02 November 2007 15:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: to the attention of the List
>
> Mea culpa, I'm one of those who forget to remove the quoted text. My
> email client handily collapses the quoted section into a single line
> which I can expand or contract as needs so I tend to ignore it ... I
> will try and remember to remove the extraneous text.
>
> Roger
>
> On 11/2/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > Could people limit their posts to a maximum of two to four per day?
> >
> > I think this is a good idea, speaking as a moderately and
> > intermittently active member.
> >
> > It might be useful to remind people that the list archive has an
> > Author sort which will easily allow them to check how many posts
> > they've made in the current and previous months. (My own average in
> > October was a little over one a day, though some people may be
> > surprised thinking that it seems I was around more. Funny the same
> > thing happens in real life ...)
> >
> > I'd also like to make a plea that people cut down on quoted text to
> > the minimum necessary. Digest readers and people with limited mail
> > quotas particularly would appreciate this.
> >
> > --
> > ===================================
> >
> > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/joncpoetics/
> >
> > ===================================
> >
>
>
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