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  • From: "Kevin Riley" <klriley AT alphalink.com.au>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] idea to deal with crackpot ideas
  • Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 12:03:39 +1100 (AUS Eastern Daylight Time)

I don't think it takes very long for most of us to work out which emails to
ignore. Hitting "delete" takes only a second. It has now become automatic
when I see certain names. It works well on any list :)

Kevin Riley

-------Original Message-------

From: Kenneth greifer
Date: 2/12/2007 11:06:25 AM

When someone sends a crackpot idea to b-Hebrew members, people who respond
could change the subject by adding "crackpot idea:" in front of the subject,
then scholars and others would know to avoid the email. This way a lot of
the irritating discussions could be reduced for scholars who don't like them
I don't know if "crackpot idea :" is allowed. Maybe something less
insulting like "non-scholarly idea:" before the subject would help. Or maybe
"mental torture alert:"

Some of the irritating emails would get through to scholars, but maybe not
as many.

Kenneth Greifer




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