Just laughing loudly.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugene C. Braig IV" <brai...@osu.edu>
To: "'Vihuela List'" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 6:50 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Protocol of emails (again...)
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).
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