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Dr. Samuel Schuman,
If you find your Nabokov List mail to be overwhelming, why not simply read
whatever few messages you are interested in, and delete the rest from your
mail box? Although I would not urge anyone interested in
Nabokov to quit the list, if you have begun to find the amount of mail
irksome, you might well consider withdrawing. Many of those who participate
in the Nabokov List
tend to write at whatever length they feel their topic requires, and many
other List participants
find these messages invaluable. Of course, those who do not will always use
their delete key freely.
Best wishes,
Andrew Brown
On 11/9/06 5:25 PM, "NABOKV-L" <NABOKV-L@HOLYCROSS.EDU> wrote:
> I wonder if others have been as overwhelmed as I by the sheer volume of
> messages on the listserv over recent weeks. Obviously, this is
> positive evidence that there is much to say about VN, and many who wish
> to participate in the conversation. I would be the last to suggest a
> harsher editorial policy to restrict the flow of electronic
> communications. On the other hand, perhaps some form of voluntary
> restraint might keep each day's messages to a more reasonable level?
> It occurred to me that if all of us agreed to send no more than one
> message to the listserv a day, that might be a modest step in the right
> direction. Do others agree?
>
> --------------------------------------
> Sam
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> Dr. Samuel Schuman
> Garrey Carruthers Distinguished Chair
> in Honors
> The University of New Mexico
> Albuquerque, NM (505) 277-4396
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