>Given all the bibliographic help I've received from this group, I wonder
>if I should list it in the bibliography of my thesis. Are there any
>stylistic guidelines for that? The Chicago Manual of Style left it
>out. :-)
There's a gap to be filled in the acknowledgment protocols indeed.
I regularly mention the lists from which I have received help at the
beginning of a spoken presentation. It is more difficult to insert in a
publication, as the help received is not always a reference, but sometimes
an interpretative track.
SHAKSPER present their postings with volume-number reference, which
may be a good solution for other moderated lists. As I know the SHAKSPER
moderator Hardy Cook, who works at the digests single-handedly, it must
take up a lot of his time. Unmoderated lists can't do this, and quoting
could then imply naming the list, the contributor, the date or the time of
the message... but when I receive a message in Montpellier at 5 pm, what
time is it when it reaches Australia, or what time was it when it was first
sent from Canada? There must be easy means to define protocols.
Just my two francs worth of morosophic opinion...
Luc
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