I realize that different e-mail readers show different header features, but
on mine (Eudora Pro--and I believe that the freeware Eudora Lite acts the
same way), a line reading "Reply to: "Biblical Greek"
<b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>" appears prominently in red; what this
header means is that, IF you use your automatic reply function (whatever
that may be in your program) your response will go ONLY to the list; you
have to put in whatever destinations you wish in the cc lines manually.
Could I please ask once again--and if you take my upper-case letters as
screaming, you are probably getting the message):
PLEASE REVIEW ALL YOUR INCOMING B-GREEK MESSAGES BEFORE REPLYING TO ANY!
There's nothing wrong with having several suggestions about the same
question, but there's no need to keep giving the same answer to a question
that's already gotten the answer you are about to give. But these notes
about the virus hoax keep coming in--although the first message after it
poured cold water on it and almost immediately George Athas apologized for
passing on the threat message. This is the kind of knee-jerk reaction that
occasionally turns B-Greek (and other lists as well) into a kind of
mechanical spam producing organization.
Wherefore: Ask not what B-Greek can do for you, but ask yourself, before
you push the "send" key: "Is this message that I am about to send B.S.
(Baloney Spam) or just plain Spam (S).
Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University
Summer: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cconrad@yancey.main.nc.us
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/
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