I apologize for the mistake, but not too abjectly, as the interchange was
plainly just the usual sort of stuff we were putting on the list. And I have no
problem with the tone of things. E-mail is a narrow medium through which
the least bit of irony can seem terribly icy. I'm sure I would enjoy conversing
in person with any of the thoughtful people on this list.
I have complained before about the peculiarity of this list, that the messages
do not come with a header that says reply-to: evolution@calvin.edu, which
would be the conventional configuration for a mailing list. As it is, one must
always manually type in the list address; if you simply respond, the message
goes only to the author, where one would normally expect it to go to the list.
In some cases it might be well to put 'OFF-LIST response' or some such in
the subject line, if one is switching to private mode in mid-thread.
Apologies again.
--Cliff Lundberg ~ San Francisco ~ cliff@noe.com