Re: The Greek word 'Magoi'

Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Fri, 08 Nov 1996 06:55:48 -0500

At 09:39 PM 11/7/96 -0600, you wrote:
>At 9:21 PM -0600 11/7/96, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>>Well, we finally seem to have gotten to the heart of the matter. Why do you
>>scholars insist on burdening us with so much trivia when a one sentence
>>answer will do? ;->
>
>Yes, well, actually, what you're supposed to do when I ask a question is
>answer the question that I want an answer to, not the one that I ask.

And in 20 words or less.

>>P.S., the web site stuff converted great, but I haven't managed to make it
>>visible. Do you want me to send it to you via email or ftp?
>
>You mean we're supposed to check out the whole month's worth before it's
>uploaded to the web site? After seeing what you did with the admin mail, I
>don't have any doubts about it--at least, I don't feel a need to see it in
>advance; maybe somebody else would. By the way, I deleted several
>"unsubscribe" notes.

No, I don't think we need to read the whole month's posts. I sure hope not,
I know *I'm* not going to do it. I'll wait until I get it visible and announce
it to the staff first, then to everyone else within a few days.

>That MAGU word was in the LSJ definition that he cited from the perseus web
>site too!

;->

Jonathan

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