Somebody has said,
>Not at all. People who won't write email don't contribute to the list,
>neither publicly nor privately. There's nothing bogus nor elitist in that.
Ah, but (1) you never know when one of them might suddenly make his first
post -- this is my first-ever post :) -- and (2) no one has been in a
position to judge whether I've derived benefit during the couple of years
I've lurked here; and (3) certainly no one but me can tell whether my
list-subscribers have benefited from the knowledge I picked up here. Chuq
is right. No one should take my silence for inarticulateness, and nobody
needs to arrogate unto himself the right to condemn people who don't spring
to their keyboards and fire off a response every seventeenth message. I
wouldn't call it "bogus" or "elitist" -- I would merely say, "fails the
reality test".
There, now, have I adequately misrepresented everyone's respective
positions? :)
Elsewhere, Bernie Cosell writes:
>But as for signatures, would just filtering off after "--<space>" be
>sufficient, or is that not widely-enough accepted as a "my .sig begins
>here" convention to use for this purpose [and/or are too many list
>members probably not clueful enough to be able to get that set up
>properly in any event...]
>
If you do that, you are assured of missing almost all of my
very-occasional posts, because I use space-doubledash-space in the middle
of my message text to signify a pause or a gasp or a parenthetical phrase
or a lapse of memory -- um, where was I?
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