Re: What's the purpose of this mailing list?

[Susie Wolfe <susiewolfe@mindspring.com>]

At 03:44 PM 7/4/99 +0200, you wrote:
>>- For the time being I'm of the opinion that we should _not_
>  encourage people to post messages with quotes just to share
>  them with other people. That's what our quotes sites are for,
>  and there are also lots of other features out there already
>  filling that purpose. What's your opinion?>>
Agreed!  
Also, when we discuss quotation sources, wording, etc., we might indicate
the source, according to whom, and leave it at that.  I have participated
in other discussions around the web in recent years, and there always seems
to be a potential for arguments about rightness, correctness, universal
truth, etc., etc.  ;-)
Personally, my experience (and I have a very large library of quotation
sources) is that a number of people and/or publications may have said the
same thing -- or nearly the same thing -- at different times in the history
of the spoken/written word.  So quotations may be variously worded and
attributed, with no loss in veracity at all.
One tiny suggestion I would make is that readers share good sources for
quotations they have found; i.e., books, other quotation e-mail lists, etc.
 A short description of the source and, in the case of e-mail lists, how to
sign up, would be very nice.  What do y'all think?
Susie
(gizmotude@mindspring.com)
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