From: Eva Lundin (eva.lundin@MAILBOX.SWIPNET.SE)
Date: Sun Sep 01 2002 - 23:53:27 PDT
Thanks for your reply. I had forgotten about the BOZ list, I´m afraid. I wish you all the best for your future without the list, but still with Mr D I hope. Best regards, Eva At 20:02 2002-08-22 +0100, you wrote: >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