Re: Please read incoming mail before responding

clayton bartholomew (c.s.bartholomew@worldnet.att.net)
Mon, 17 Nov 1997 10:09:55 +0000

Jonathan Robie
>>>>>>>>>>>
A good policy. I would, however, like
to encourage us to be merciful,
realizing that there are sometimes
unusual time delays on the Internet, and
people can sometimes
respond to messages without having received other
messages which they should theoretically
have seen hours ago.
>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes Jonathan,

It somtimes takes 3 days for my mail to b-greek to show up in the digest
and sometimes it does not show up at all. And I am only a few thousand
miles from Virginia, just think of those folks in UK and Germany and
even Moscow, not to neglect Australia.

If I may risk interperting Carl's post, I believe his intent was to have
people read all the incomming mail *in the thread* they are responding
to. If I was to read all the incoming mail to b-greek before responding
I would never respond. I cannot begin to read all the incoming mail to
b-greek.

Thanks to all of you for your patinence with those of us on the b-greek
list with IQ's in the more or less normal range.

Clay Bartholomew
Three Tree Point