Listmember

On an academic list, one listmember responded to a discussion of whether e-messages should be more formal and carefully edited by affirming the pleasures of "reading between the lines" and "seeing a personality profile" emerge from a history of several postings.

In addition, it is, in most cases, not possible to confirm if members are sending side-posts, i.e. messages directly send^([sic]) to other listmembers.

Some of the above are 'virtual collegaues', members of the Victoria 19th-Century British Culture & Society mailbase, and I would once again like to record my thanks both to the listmembers and to Patrick Leary, who as listmaster creates and maintains both the content and the atmosphere of this haven of scholarly collegiality.