hi all

i offer the following in the spirit of sharing.

janet

At 14:09 1999/11/16 -0500, martha wrote to me:
>Dear Janet:
>I am offering the following in the spirit of helpful criticism,
>not with malice. Please accept it in that spirit.
>
>It really is unbecomming and unworthy of you to keep harping
>on your version of the circumstances of David Boots' departure
>from the PD list. Especially mean was your focus on letting
>all the newcomers know the rather slanted details of the
>happenings of some two years ago. Do give it a rest.
>
>I have been a member of this list since 1995 and was present
>during those days. I have also corresponded with David continuously
>since then, so I am privy to both sides of this seeming vendetta of
>yours.
>
>Actually, your rather bulky and rigid rules re directing messages
>to the list have turned a number of us off. Like most of the other
>members of the health care professions, I am no longer contributing
>and I am seldom rewarded by any gold among the heaps of dross.
>This list has drifted far away from the rich source of helpful
>information it once was.
>
>It would be much more profitable if you would focus your attention
>on the many personal messages that abuse the purpose of the list. You
>are very good at blasting the snake oil purveyors off the list. Why
>not do the same for the chronic abusers who persist in sending their
>personal chatter to the entire world-wide list AND to the archives
>where they will reside forever.
>
>Your device of using a small "i" rather than the traditional
>capital would seem to indicate a retiring personality with low
>self-esteem rampant. Obviously that is not the case. Quite the
>opposite. Your way or off with your head SEEMS to be more the case.
>It is particularly harmful to encourage the hurtful derisive epithets
>of "list police" etc., when any of us dares to complain about the flood
>of nattering trivia that chronically infests the list. As list duenna,
>you can stop it with gentle but firm reminders of list courtesy. It is
>unfair to demand that busy professionals who are on the list to learn or
>offer help "Just delete", while continuing to allow the very abuse that
>many are complaining about. We have lost many of the voices that have
>been so helpful in the past. Where is Ida? Doc Faye? Our pharmacist?
>etc. We don't need another chat room.
>
>So count me among the many others who are distressed and grumpy about
>the direction things are going under your guidance. Your messages from
>Bermuda revealed a very different personality than we have seen since
>you returned to Canada. What happened to that delightful person?
>
>Trying to understand....
>Martha
>
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janet paterson
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