Kurtaceous emails
Saturday, December 3, 2011
What is Kurtaceous you ask?
Kurtaceous is a word I made up to address a prevalent kind of email that is sent to group email listservs.
Most group email listservs have guidelines about subject matter that must be adhered to, for example I belong to the Arizona New Mexico Birdlist and proper etiquette is to only post messages about birds or birding in Arizona or New Mexico, messages about your recent trip to Texas or Africa are frowned upon and in most cases looked upon as simply bragadocious emails. And political messages about cats killing birds or ornithologists collecting birds are examples of topics that have been banned from discussion!
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