what is the cost of downloading? i do not understand...??? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gordon Barlow" <barlow@candw.ky> To: <OLD-ENGLISH-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] question Doctors Commons > > Eve McLaughlin wrote: > > > Personally,. I am getting extremely bored with this nitpicking, based > > > on errors in the College of Arms' explanations. And I suspect so are > > > others who have to pay for downloading what is not relevant to the > > > original query and not exactly interesting to the vast majority of > > > readers. Forget it, as I shall > > > With all respect to Eve: I cannot be alone in finding digressions of this > sort often fascinating, and I would hate for them to be ruled out of order - > or even discouraged. OE-List is much, much more interesting than the vast > majority of similar Lists, and its nature is to be cherished, I think. I > once belonged to a "History of English" List that became moribund purely > because it discouraged all digressions. The infinitesimal marginal cost of > downloading each extra posting is a price worth paying if it avoids such a > fate. > > Eve: please relent! > > Gordon Barlow > > > ==== OLD-ENGLISH Mailing List ==== > To contact the list administrator: > OLD-ENGLISH-admin@rootsweb.com > >