Date:  Tue, 9 Dec 1997 02:16:11 -0500
From:  "Bethany K. Dumas" <dumasb[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTK.EDU>
Subject: Re: Posts from non-professionals

On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, Beverly Flanigan wrote:

>   I part company with Bethany to some degree; I'd like to encourage
>   serious students to join the list (three or four of my own are on it),
>   as long as they do the basic library dig first before asking questions,
>   and as long as their comments are relevant and non-flaming.

Please note that the comment I posted on November 16 (quoted in part by
Tom Clark on December 8) was designed solely to announce my intention not
to criticize comments posted by people I did not know. (I had just
learned via a private post that I had unwittingly taken to task a
beginning student.)

I offered no opinion about whether such comments should continue or
whether the lsit should be changed. At this point, I have no particular
opinion about either issue.

Bethany