From: Jeff Farmer (af369@ACORN.NET)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 14:55:56 PDT
Dear Mr. Holloway: Thank you (and Dr. Parker) for your efforts on behalf of Dickens' works--and for your efforts on our behalf, as members of the list. Fare thee well! Jeff Farmer Akron, Ohio, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Holloway" <tom.holloway@U3A.ORG.UK> To: <BOZ@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 3:02 PM Subject: Re: Marley's Office > Eva Lundin asked.... > > >How come you sent me this question?? > > ... and Linda Putnam replied... > > > I'm not quite sure who you are, but, with all due respect, I didn't send > you > > the question about Marley's Office. > > You are both (with many others) subscribers to the BOZ list at St Johns > University. When your reply to an email that comes through a discussion > list, the reply is sent back to the list and distributed to all other > subscribers. > > Thus, this is a conversation quickly going nowhere. As listowner, it gives > me an opportunity to let all know that the list will shortly be closed down, > due to lack of support. > > I started it for schools, impersonating the style of Charles Dickens, > several years ago, and my place was eventually taken by Dr David Parker > (then Curator of the Dickens Museum in London and a far better 'Charles > Dickens' than I had been). Dr Parker has long since retired and has other > fish to fry -- also, there doesn't seem to be much call for students to > question the Inimitable Mr Dickens about his works, therefore I shall not > attempt again to imitate him and I take it upon myself to close this list as > of 1st September and to remove the web-page at > http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/chatback/ which was its public face. > > ==================== > Tom Holloway > tom.holloway@u3a.org.uk > tom@holloways.org <== Personal email > http://timewitnesses.org > 01926-771772 >