Katie, When you returned after your "few days absence" was your delete key still on your keyboard? We've been this route before. How about List Police? If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Greg 48/35/35 ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 12:11 AM 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