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Because it's the Pound list it's okay to blast off on someone about the
Wanderer?

On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 10:35  AM, Tim Romano wrote:

> And it is the Pound list, after all. We need a new acronym: RTFP.
> Tim Romano
>
> At 10:17 AM 3/7/03, Carrol Cox wrote:
>> Tim Romano wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > Why enter a discussion of the poem with a premature post that
>> begins: "I
>> > don't have my translation handy, but from what I remember of the
>> > Wanderer..."  ?
>> >
>>
>> This is an e-mail list, neither a post-doctoral seminar nor a refereed
>> journal. That seems a perfectly valid opening to me. In fact, I see no
>> reason before the third or fourth round of posts in a thread for any
>> particular precision of reference. The parameters ought to be
>> conversational.
>>
>> Carrol Cox
>

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