Brendan: The emails are not being sent to you, personally. They are being sent to "the list," of which you are now a member. That's why the email says [Wittrs] in the subject line. There is no need to reply to any or all of them. You don't have to thank people for sending them. They aren't being sent "to you." They go to an email address that spams them out to you. Some people like to read the list this way (by email) just to keep up with what is going on. Other people read the list by viewing it online here: THE BOARD -- http://alturl.com/whcf GOOGLE: -- http://groups.google.com/group/Wittrs YAHOO: -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wittrs/ FREELIST: -- //www.freelists.org/archive/wittrs/09-2009 WEB VIEW: -- http://tinyurl.com/ku7ga4 If you view it online, the benefit is that you don't have to receive emails every time someone posts. If you view it by receiving emails, the benefit is that you don't have to chase anything down -- it comes straight to you. But you do have to delete mails regularly that you don't want. There is also the option of receiving only 1 email of the entire day's postings, so you only have one mail a day (if that is what you want). So once again, the mails are not being sent to you personally. This mail right here is being read by the entire list. Everyone gets it. Anyone can reply. Surely no one will. It will just go into their boxes and be deleted. You only reply if you have something to contribute to the discussion. You would never reply to every mail by saying "thanks I will reply soon." I have you signed up to receive emails. If you want to receive a digest version instead (one mail) or if you want to receive no mails (so you can read it on the web), that is an option too. Just making sure you know how it works. If you have any questions, send them to me, and I'll tell you how things work. Thanks and regards Dr. Sean Wilson, Esq. Assistant Professor Wright State University Redesigned Website: http://seanwilson.org SSRN papers: http://ssrn.com/author=596860 Twitter: http://twitter.com/seanwilsonorg Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/seanwilsonorg New Discussion Group: http://seanwilson.org/wittgenstein.discussion.html ________________________________ From: brendan downs <downs_brendan@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: wittrs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 6:38:59 PM Subject: [Wittrs] Re: Russell on Wittgenstein, From McGuiness' Young Ludwig Thank you for your email. I will attempt to read all the posts on the site, to get a clearer understanding of the site and of W and so I can navigate the site to somewhat of the sites expectations. Thanks brendan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com