(context follows) I haven't been bothered by the off-topic postings the listowner talks about (except the one offering mortgages) but I can see his point. The MAGNA PECUNIA posting and the query on the Harington neo-Latin quote would have fit in well on the Classics-L list, but they didn't really have anything to do with Vergil.
There is a general Classics listserv, and one on Ovid, too (although the latter has been pretty inactive lately). JMP On Sat, 6 Mar 1999, David Wilson-Okamura wrote: > Two notes and a query from the listowner: > > 1. MAGNA PECUNIA NUNC!!! was cute, but defeats the purpose of a subject > header, which is to help busy people decide what they want to read. So be > boring, be courteous, and use a subject header that reflects the content of > your message. > > 2. This also goes for messages that introduce a new topic. Most of us > probably do this by replying to a previous message; it's important, though, > that when we do so, we change the subject line of the new message. Again, > this helps busy people sort their mail. But it also helps you: who knows > but that the world's expert on YOUR topic isn't reading your query because > it's "disguised" under an old subject heading that he or she got bored with > and now deletes on sight? > > 3. Here's the query: how focused should this group be? Simon's question > produced what seemed to me a fruitful discussion, even though it wasn't > directly related to Virgil. I'm not sure, though, that a Virgil group is > the best place to ask a question about Ovid. Not that an answer can't be > had that way, but might there be better places to ask such a question? If > so, what are they? I'm not sure about the answer to either question, and > invite responses, either to me personally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or to this > thread. > > Yours faithfully, > David Wilson-Okamura > Listowner, Mantovano > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > David Wilson-Okamura http://www.virgil.org/chaucer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chaucer: an annotated guide to online resources > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. > Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message > "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You > can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
