Being a robot and lacking a friendly, smiling face, I am very grateful for the impersonal nature of e-mail. (Just kidding. ...kinda.)
Eugene > -----Original Message----- > From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On > Behalf Of Stewart McCoy > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 1:33 PM > To: Vihuela List > Subject: [VIHUELA] Protocol of emails (again...) > > 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
