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Thank you, Katie, for an extremely polite, balanced observation. I hope your carefully-chosen, respectful approach will be heard by all. I will be very disappointed if people on this list do not choose to be as considerate in their postings as you have been. I have to agree completely with you. There seems to be considerable inappropriate use of the list. Without going to the list guidelines, there are some basic barometers of generally agreed, list-appropriate behavior, or e-etiquette: 1. if the topic is in keeping with the intent of the list (as designed by the List Owner), and is CLEARLY relevant to the general list membership, then it may be posted to the entire list; 2. replies to a posting that are CLEARLY relevant to the general membership may be posted to the entire list; 3. replies that are specific to the original requester, and subsequent dialogues, SHOULD NOT be sent to the entire list. Would the list owner please post those guidelines here, for all to see? How to differentiate between 2 & 3? Simple, but not quantitative... If you aren't sure if the posting is relevant to the general list, don't post to the entire list! Be conservative. In the 2 or 3 months that I've been on this list over 500 messages are as yet unread by me... I don't have the time to read and delete each one and I don't want to miss important info hiding somewhere in those messages. I keep hoping to find the time... Thanks again, Katie! Marla Marla L. Gillham PO Box 343 Yachats, OR 97498-0343 541.547.4090 [log in to unmask] ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2001 9:11 PM Subject: list content > Hi Everybody! > > I turned on my PC tonight after a few days' absence, and I had a huge number > of e-mails. Most of the e-mails from this list did not seem to me to belong > on this list. I think periodicly we all have to sit back and think about the > purpose of the list and what appropriate postings are. We all should look at > and read again and read again the Guidelines for postings from the List > Owner. And we all have to remember that Sparkle exists: all those poems, > all that humor, and all similiar material goes to Sparkle. And all those > personal comments, all that personal communication, goes offlist to direct > e-mails. I am not including Camilla and her poem because she had an > explanation in her e-mail for putting her poem on the list. I am not > including Bunny and her arguably offensive humor piece because she apologized > and indicated that there was a mistake that resulted in that e-mail going to > the list. But there were several other postings which seemed to me to > violate the Guidelines. I think periodically we have to re-visit this issue. > I also do not think it is fair for those who have reluctantly left the list > in the past over this issue for us to allow others now to continue to post in > the same manner (inappropriately) on the list. Katie > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] > In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn