Count me as another appreciator of Bill East's (and others') patient and
informative responses to what may sometimes seem inappropriately basic
questions. I've thoroughly enjoyed the "Renihan series." So long as list
members are willing to provide such help, why not? Regardless of whether
the original questioner appreciates the responses (and maybe most of them
do, who knows?), others surely will.
Carol
At 06:00 PM 5/30/1998 +0100, you wrote:
>Am I over-reacting? Should we continue to answer all queries with the
>courtesy typical of the vast majority of our membership (fast approaching
>600 in number)? Should such queries be sent to the list or only to the
>person who posted them? What do you think?
>
>With all good wishes,
>George Ferzoco
>temporarily at [log in to unmask]
>permanently at [log in to unmask]
>
>PS, particulary to list members (often lurkers) who are not professional
>academics or university students of the Middle Ages: my worries are most
>definitely NOT over you, who have been members of the list for quite a
>while, and whose interest in our discussions is genuine and therefore
>welcomed; my own concern is with ensuring that discussions serve
>*ourselves*, i.e. those who show they wish to belong with our textual
>community (to borrow a term from a one-time tutor of mine, Brian Stock)
>
>
Augustine, to Truth: Your best servant is the one who does not attend
so much to hearing what he himself wants as to
willing what he has heard from you.
Confessions, Book X
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