More Listserv Etiquette 101

I thought I'd made this plain. 

Miriam had my back. 

The material'd been covered. 

We'd moved to the next chapter.

Yet I had to read this tonight:

Does anyone know if Marx wrote anything substantial on capital-qua-capital?  (I'm not so concerned with his writing on money, although if something about it seems relevant to capital, I'd be happy to hear about that too.)  If so, in what text might I find this?  Thanks so much for extending your not inconsiderable expertise to suborn my project.  I'll consider slapping your name in my acknowledgments page for fifteen seconds before deciding I'm a self-made man who never needed your help anyway.

Thanks!

All y'all who ask the obvious of experts, let me whisper some sweet somethings in your ear: 

Were I an evil telepathic narcissist, you'd think yourself the dynamite of my PROJECTED FUSE.

Were I an angry giant robot, I'd evaporate your people with my devastating RAY STAR.

Were I some folk who had tell of Internets, all my YAHOOS would ASK JEEVES who OGLED the cripplingly obvious answer to your question and we would laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh at your inability to locate the most basic of source material and the gall required to broadcast your shortcomings to everyone who knows you because it would be funny.

Comments

[tomemos]

Completely agree. Nice job.

[David Moles]

Well, you know, it all depends on what you mean by substantial.

[Karl Steel]

What, did you get another email from Jonah Goldberg?

[Tim Lacy]

As with your first-linked post, excellent mocking. SEK, you're the chief excecutive mocker of the internet, the king of all mockers, and the first dictator among Menckenesque mockers. We need more like you. I'll see what I can do. - TL

[Rich Puchalsky]

Suborn? Does that word not mean what I think it means? Or is the idea that anyone who would write this request wouldn't know what it means?

[SEK]

Would that I had Karl, would that I had.

And I slipped "suborn" in there, Rich, for that very reason. What this person's written seems criminal, doesn't it?

(Note: I hate hate hate TypePad's new spam filter. I tried posting the above and was told:

We're sorry, your comment has not been published because TypePad's antispam filter has flagged it as potential comment spam. It has been held for review by the blog's author.

Because you know, I'm not how much I trust myself these days.)

[JPool]

So you're saying listserves are not designed to do gradstudents' coursework for them?

I'm not how much I trust myself either.