Date:         Fri, 15 May 1992 11:55:00 BST
	From: Lou Burnard <[log in to unmask]>
	Subject:      TEI List
 
 
	The purpose of this ListServ is not to discuss how ListServ works or how
	it could be made better, still less to be rude about people who haven't
	read the instructions for using it.
 
Monseigneur,
 
I beg with utmost humility your gracious forgivenness for having dared to call
 the
attention of people on the list unfamiliar with 'listserv' to some simple ways
 not
to inconvenience many others by automatic messages -- in reply to an explicit
enquiry as to the cause of these messages.
 
 
	It is for you to discuss how the TEI
	draft proposals work, how they could be made better
 
Yes, Sir! Certainly, Sir! Undoubtedly, Sir!
 
	(and by all means to
	be rude about people who don't understand what *they* are for!).
 
Huh?????
 
	Availability of the first chapter of TEI P2 to be published was
	announced on this list several weeks ago. Have you read it yet? Do you
	have any comments? There are several hundred people signed up for this
	list; has none of you anything to say about it?
 
	Lou Burnard
 
Not yet, Sir! promise to do it as soon as the exams and correction of papers are
 over,
Sir! God strike me dead if I disobey, Sir!
 
Your most humble, obedient and sinful servant who begs your gracious pardon -- a
 mere
worm writhing dejectedly in the dust and dirt of ignorance and manners.
 
==sganarelle aka [log in to unmask]