Dear Monica, Many thanks for your single message. Much appreciated. :-)
I think it's fair enough to discuss how we send messages to each other, but Heaven forbid that any arbitrary protocol should be imposed. If anything is seriously amiss, Wayne will intervene, but otherwise we are free to do things as we think best. One thing which does worry me about emails is their impersonal nature. We cannot see the sender's friendly, smiling face, so it is easy to take something amiss, especially when many of us have never met face to face. The lists at Dartmouth College are a wonderful resource, and I am grateful to Wayne for organising them. Best wishes, Stewart. -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Monica Hall Sent: 20 December 2011 17:35 To: Vihuelalist Subject: [VIHUELA] Protocol of emails (again...) Sorry Stewart - there is no way that everyone is going to be happy whatever we might decide to do (and who is going to police it anyway?) I personally have no problem at all with the fact that I receive the messages twice - or indeed with the fact that I receive my own messages back straight away. I think you have to accept that if you are on the list everyone is going to do exactly as they please and there is nothing you can do about it - except not be on the list. As far as tidying the heading is concerned I understand that [VIHUELA] is inserted automatically. As for capital letters - well we all make typing mistakes and sometimes it is helpful to use them to emphasise something. I think it is pretty clear from all the messages so far that we would each like to impose our own protocol on everyone else. But in a free world that's just not going to happen. Regards Monica (who in this instance has sent the message only to the list and has tidied the heading to see what may come back when she presses send). To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
