From: Dr. Thomas Isenbarger (isen_at_plantpath.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Dec 07 2004 - 09:55:51 PST
On Dec 7, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Jon Glass wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2004, at 4:39 PM, Dr. Thomas Isenbarger wrote:
>
>> I find it is easier to adjust my own
>> behavior then that of others; also, I cannot exhort folks to be extra
>> cognizant of getting their subject lines straight because when I do
>> then it will inevitably happen that I will forget to straighten this
>> up
>> in one my own mails to the list.
>
> That's no way to talk to your father!!! List Dad, that is. :-) I think
> we can say that Victor has the right to make these kinds of reminders,
> and to basically keep things in line and in check. As a lowly reader of
> NTLK, I don't really have the right to tell others to trim quotes,
> bottom quote, or not change thread subjects, but Victor, as List Dad,
> does have that right. And he is right, too, btw. ;-)
I mean no disrespect to Victor at all. Just that I find it's easier to
change the way I do things than to change the way others do things. .
.especially since I rarely am a model of the behavior I suggest!
Tom Isenbarger
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