--- "Michael J. Smith" <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
>>
> I'm a relative newbie here myself, but I'm quite
> delighted by
> the combativeness of this list. So many mailing
> lists have a
> preposterously constipated notion of decorum -- like
> a tea
> party in some little-used petty-bourgeois parlor,
> with everybody
> sitting stiffly on their uncomfortable chairs,
> pinkies self-consciously
> extended, trying to think of suitably genteel topics
> for conversation.
>
> The academic lists are by far the worst, although
> classics-l, the
> Greek and Latin list, gets surprisingly heated
> sometimes. By contrast,
> the mediaevalists' list, medtext-l, is so soporific
> that it ought to
> be a controlled substance.
>
> --
> --Michael J. Smith
> --mjs at smithbowen.net
>
> http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org
>
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