Jon,
First of all, you have yet to show me the vitriol/blast in the first
message. I said I'd prefer to discuss it with you when your weren't relying
upon vague memories. If you consider that a blast, you've led a
miraculously sheltered life.

And have you received my reply offlist to the message you sent me offlist?
Tim Romano

At 11:40 AM 3/7/03, Jon & Anne Weidler wrote:
>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