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At 08:55 PM 2000/06/11 -0400, our esteemed list-mom wrote: >Hi, all. The Parkinsn list was indeed locked yesterday and today until >Ivan phoned and told me about the problem. I had been away all yesterday >and didn't check my email at all until after Ivan's phone call. There is >a limit to the number of messages permitted to be posted to the list in a >24 hour period (to prevent someone from bombarding the list). When this >quota has been reached, the listserver program locks the list and sends >me a message to 'free' the list. There were 41 messages in the queue to >be distributed when I freed it. > >A few suggestions: Do not feel you have to respond to each and every >message posted to the list. If there are two or three that you would >like to respond to, perhaps you could combine them (and combine the >subject lines) into one message. That would reduce the number of messages >but not the volume of information. > >RE: Harrassment by email. As I understand it, the internet is not above >the law in any country. People who distribute child pornography via the >internet are arrested & imprisoned the same as they would be if they were >peddling it in some back alley. Harrassment and stalking are crimes >whether on the internet or on the telephone or in person. Report them. >Let your service provider know; let the stalker's service provider know; >let the police know...I believe that it's a federal offence so in Canada >notify the RCMP...in the United States notify the FBI and in other >countries, notify your federal police agency. We are NOT the wild, wild >west of two centuries ago. If anything, I would rather compare us to >'Star Trek'...we are going where no one has gone before...and we're not >going to let the bullies win. > >This list consists of around 2000 individual adults (not all of whom are >active participants). That means there are at least that number of >opinions about the purpose of the list (maybe we should double that for >when we are 'off' and when we are 'on'). My purpose in starting the list >was encompassed in the name of the list: Parkinson's Information >Exchange. If it's about any aspect of living or working with Parkinson's >either as a patient (I hate that word!) or as a caregiver, it fits the >definition. Humor is definitely part of living with Parkinson's. >Availability and cost of treatments are part of living with PD. Sexuality >is definitely part of living with PD. Emotions are also part of living >with PD. So, that means there's a wide variety of topics that are well >within the original goal of the list. > >One of the very few things that are NOT acceptable is insulting another >list member. You may not agree with him/her & that is acceptable. You >may not not like him/her & that is acceptable. However, you may NOT use >this list to post juvenile insults about another member. If you are >angry at what another member said, deal with it as you would as an adult if >you were face to face..not by using the list as graffiti on a bathroom >wall. Sorry for ranting, but that kind of bullying really gets to me. >We're all in the same boat, folks; we're on the same team; we're battling >the same enemy; let's do it together each in our own way. > >Barb >Home: 905-627-1832 > >============================================================================ >Barbara Patterson [log in to unmask] >HSC 2J22 905-525-9140, ext. 22403 > School of Nursing >============================================================================ > !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! huzzah and bravo !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! jp onml janet paterson 53 now / 41 dx / 37 onset 613 256 8340 / PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada visit my website "a new voice" at: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/