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